Increasing mortality rates of common malignancies in Colombia: An emerging problem

Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2285-2292

  Piñeros, Marion ^a   Hernández, Gustavo ^a   Bray, Freddie ^b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Cancerología   (Colombia)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Colombia; Data quality; Neoplasms; Past mortality trends; Prevention and control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLOMBIA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

COLOMBIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 7644242104     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20607     Document Type: Article

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