Proportionate cancer incidence in the Laotian population of California, 1988-2006

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1011-1016

  Yang, Richard C ^a   Mills, Paul K ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hmong; Incidence; Laotian

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAOS; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK REDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES; ASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM; REFUGEE; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAOS; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION GROUPS; REFUGEES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 68849086871     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-009-9325-z     Document Type: Article

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