Urban-rural differences in breast cancer incidence in Egypt (1999-2006)

Breast

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 417-423

  Dey, Subhojit ^a   Soliman, Amr S ^a   Hablas, Ahmad ^b   Seifeldein, Ibrahim A ^c   Ismail, Kadry ^b   Ramadan, Mohamed ^c   El Hamzawy, Hesham ^c   Wilson, Mark L ^a   Banerjee, Mousumi ^a   Boffetta, Paolo ^d   Harford, Joe ^e   Merajver, Sofia D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Tanta Cancer Center and the Gharbiah Cancer Society   (Egypt)

^c Tanta Cancer Center   (Egypt)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77957132595     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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