Age-specific breast, uterine and ovarian cancer mortality trends in Spain: Changes from 1980 to 2006

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 169-175

  Cabanes, Anna ^a,b   Vidal, Enrique ^a,b   Pérez Gómez, Beatriz ^a,b   Aragonés, Nuria ^a,b   López Abente, Gonzalo ^a,b   Pollán, Marina ^a,b  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Mortality; Ovarian cancer; Poisson regression model; Trends; Uterine cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; POISSON REGRESSION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREND STUDY; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349733398     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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