The beginning of the end of the lung cancer epidemic in Dutch women?

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1472-1475

  Karim Kos, Henrike E ^a   Janssen Heijnen, Maryska L G ^b   Van Iersel, Carola A ^c   Van Der Meer, Regina M ^d   De Vries, Esther ^a,b   Coebergh, Jan Willem W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d STIVORO for a Smoke free Future   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incidence; Lung neoplasms; Mortality; Netherlands; Smoking; Trend; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; SMOKING;

EID: 49749109173     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23681     Document Type: Article

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