Gender differences in stomach cancer survival in Osaka, Japan: Analyses using relative survival model

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 690-694

  Sato, Naomi ^a,b   Ito, Yuri ^a   Ioka, Akiko ^a   Tanaka, Masahiro ^a   Tsukuma, Hideaki ^a  

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

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Excess hazard ratio; Gender difference; Stomach cancer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; REGIONAL METASTASIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; MORTALITY; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349973771     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyp084     Document Type: Article

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