Years of life lost due to cancer in a cohort study in Japan

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-192

  Pham, Truong Minh ^a,b,g   Fujino, Yoshihisa ^a   Ide, Reiko ^a   Tokui, Noritaka ^a   Kubo, Tatsuhiko ^c   Mizoue, Tetsuya ^d   Ogimoto, Itsuro ^e   Matsuda, Shinya ^a   Yoshimura, Takesumi ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c Asahi Kasei Nobeoka Office Health Care Center   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cohort study; Mortality; Years of life lost

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STOMACH CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 65249112672     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckp020     Document Type: Article

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