Trends in colorectal cancer in the south of the Netherlands 19752007: Rectal cancer survival levels with colon cancer survival

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 784-796

  Lemmens, Valery ^a,b   Steenbergen, Liza Van ^a   Janssen Heijnen, Maryska ^a   Martijn, Hendrik ^c   Rutten, Harm ^c   Coebergh, Jan Willem ^a,b  

^a Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954506522     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841861003733713     Document Type: Article

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