Declining mortality from kidney cancer in Europe

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1130-1135

  Levi, Fabio ^a   Lucchini, F ^a   Negri, E ^b   La Vecchia, C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Laboratory of Epidemiology   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC STATES; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DENMARK; EASTERN EUROPE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; KIDNEY CANCER; NETHERLANDS; POLAND; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4143064795     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdh270     Document Type: Article

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