Experience and outcome of population-based cancer registration in Basrah-Southern Iraq in 2005-2008

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1151-1154

  Habib, Omran S ^a   Al Diab, Jasim M A ^a   Mohsin, Anmar A ^a   Al Elwe, Wasan M J ^a   Hasan, Jenan G ^a   Al Haroon, Susan S ^a   Al Emara, Kareem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Basrah; Cancer; Cancer registration; Incidence data; Iraq

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650712590     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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