Relationship between cancer mortality/incidence and ambient ultraviolet B irradiance in China

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1701-1709

  Chen, Wanqing ^a,c   Clements, Mark ^b,c   Rahman, Bayzidur ^c   Zhang, Siwei ^a   Qiao, Youlin ^a   Armstrong, Bruce K ^c  

^a CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Incidence; Mortality; Negative binomial regression; UVB

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHINA; COLON CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RURAL AREA; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D;

EID: 77956947287     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9599-1     Document Type: Article

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