Regional differences in population-based cancer survival between six prefectures in Japan: Application of relative survival models with funnel plots

Cancer Science

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1306-1311

  Ito, Yuri ^a   Ioka, Akiko ^a   Tsukuma, Hideaki ^a   Ajiki, Wakiko ^b   Sugimoto, Tomoyuki ^c   Rachet, Bernard ^d   Coleman, Michel P ^d  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FUNNEL PLOT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION GROUPS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67449085830     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2009.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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