Cancer in the world - A call for international collaboration

Salud Publica de Mexico

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL.2, 2009, Pages

  Gospodarowicz, Mary K ^a,b,c   Cazap, Eduardo ^c,d   Jadad, Alex R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c International Union Against Cancer   (Switzerland)

^d SLACOM Sociedad Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Oncologia Medica   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEOPLASM;

HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77952575305     PISSN: 00363634     EISSN: 16067916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-36342009000800021     Document Type: Article

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