Estimating the prevalence of breast cancer using a disease model: Data problems and trends

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Kruijshaar, Michelle E ^a,b   Barendregt, Jan J ^a   vaan de Poll Franse, Lonneke V ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STATISTICS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344688781     PISSN: 14787954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-1-5     Document Type: Article

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