Sociodemographic factors and vestibular schwannoma: A Danish nationwide cohort study

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1291-1299

  Schüz, Joachim ^a   Steding Jessen, Marianne ^a   Hansen, Søren ^b   Stangerup, Sven Eric ^b,c   Cayé Thomasen, Per ^b,c   Johansen, Christoffer ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Cohort study; Epidemiology; Marital status; Socioeconomic status; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OCCUPATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 78650124253     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: 15235866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noq149     Document Type: Article

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