The incidence of and mortality from leukaemias in the UK: A general population-based study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bhayat, Fatima ^a   Das Gupta, Emma ^b   Smith, Chris ^a   McKeever, Tricia ^a   Hubbard, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CHILD; CHRONIC GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; ADOLESCENT; AGE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 68949207957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-252     Document Type: Article

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