Epidemiology of breast cancer in the Islamic Republic of Iran: First results from a population-based cancer registry

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1426-1431

  Sadjadi, A ^a,b   Nouraie, M ^a   Ghorbani, A ^a   Alimohammadian, M ^c   Malekzadeh, R ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 75449084732     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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