Abstracting stage in population-based cancer registries: The example of oral cavity and oropharynx cancers

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 501-506

  de Camargo Cancela, Marianna ^a,b   Chapuis, François ^c,d   Curado, Maria Paula ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Oral cancer; Oral cavity; Oropharynx; Population based; TNM stage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; HEALTH; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77955092395     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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