Cancer survival as a function of age at diagnosis: A study of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 667-681

  Bassily, Mena N ^a,b,c   Wilson, Richard ^c   Pompei, Francesco ^c   Burmistrov, Dimitriy ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ITA Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer in old age; Cancer survival; Cause specific survival; Kaplan Meier; SEER; Survival phases

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; DATA BASE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650176651     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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