Incidence, mortality and five-year relative survival ratio of prostate cancer among chinese residents in Singapore from 1968 to 2002 by metastatic staging

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 466-471

  Chia, Sin Eng ^a   Tan, Chuen Seng ^b   Lim, Gek Hsiang ^c   Sim, Xueling ^a   Lau, Weber ^d   Chia, Kee Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Non metastatic; Population based; Registry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954494762     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.v39n6p466     Document Type: Article

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