Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Cancer: (Trends in) Incidence and Mortality from Esophageal, Stomach, and Colorectal Cancer

Endoscopic Mucosal Resection

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-17

  Lemmens, Valery E P P ^a,b   Coebergh, Jan Willem W ^a,b  

^a The Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cervix uteri; Colorectum; Epidemiology; Gastrointestinal cancer; Mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349095079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696309.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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