Substantial under-estimation in cancer incidence estimates for developing countries due to under-ascertainment in elderly cancer cases

Cancer Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 250-255

  Fallah, Mahdi ^a   Kharazmi, Elham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bias; Developing countries; Incidence; Incidence rate; Neoplasms; Old age; Rate; Under ascertainment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GLOBOCAN RESEARCH; HUMAN; INDIA; IRELAND; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; THAILAND; UGANDA; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42749097673     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.01.034     Document Type: Article

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