Homogeneous prostate cancer mortality in the nordic countries over four decades

European Urology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 427-432

  Meyer, Mara S ^a   Mucci, Lorelei A ^a,b   Andersson, Swen Olof ^c   Andrén, Ove ^c   Johansson, Jan Erik ^c   Tretli, Steinar ^d   Adami, Hans Olov ^a,e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Cancer Registry of Norway   (Norway)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer trends; Mortality; Nordic region; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DENMARK; FINLAND; HUMAN; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SCANDINAVIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955513600     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2010.05.040     Document Type: Article

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