Recent trends in prostate cancer mortality show a continuous decrease in several countries

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 421-429

  Bouchardy, Christine ^a   Fioretta, Gerald ^a   Rapiti, Elisabetta ^a   Verkooijen, Helena Maria ^a,b   Rapin, Charles Henry ^c   Schmidlin, France ^d   Miralbell, Raymond ^d   Zanetti, Roberto ^a,e,f  

^a GENEVA CANCER REGISTRY   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Association PROSCA   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e CPO   (Italy)

^f Piedmont Cancer Registry   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mortality; Prostate cancer; PSA; Time trends

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRIA; BELARUS; BELGIUM; BULGARIA; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CHILE; CUBA; CZECH REPUBLIC; DENMARK; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FINLAND; FRANCE; GERMANY; GREECE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IRELAND; ISRAEL; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; NORWAY; POLAND; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGAPORE; SLOVAKIA; SOUTH KOREA; SPAIN; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UKRAINE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGED; BLOOD; EUROPE; IMMUNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGED; AMERICAS; AUSTRALIA; EUROPE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 44949119412     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23520     Document Type: Article

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