The striking geographical pattern of gastric cancer mortality in Spain: Environmental hypotheses revisited

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 316-

  Aragonés, Nuria ^a,b   Pérez Gómez, Beatriz ^a,b   Pollán, Marina ^a,b   Ramis, Rebeca ^a,b   Vidal, Enrique ^a,b   Lope, Virginia ^a,b   García Pérez, Javier ^a,b   Boldo, Elena ^a,b   López Abente, Gonzalo ^a,b  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; STOMACH CANCER;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70349864884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-316     Document Type: Article

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