Unchanging clinico-epidemiological profile of lung cancer in North India over three decades

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-104

  Singh, Navneet ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh N ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a   Behera, Digambar ^a   Jindal, Surinder K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Histology; Lung cancer; North India; Smoking status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING;

EID: 76449108265     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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