Incidence and mortality of the leading cancer types in Puerto Rico: 1987-2004

Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-329

  Torres Cintrón, Mariela ^a   Ortiz, Ana P ^a   Pérez Irizarry, Javier ^a   Soto Salgado, Marievelisse ^a   Figueroa Vallés, Nayda R ^a   de la Torre Feliciano, Taína ^a   Ortiz Ortiz, Karen J ^a   Calo, William A ^a   Suárez Pérez, Erick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Cancer; Incidence; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PUERTO RICO; TIME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PUERTO RICO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956993740     PISSN: 07380658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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