Caution needed for country-specific cancer survival

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9760, 2011, Pages 99-101

  Autier, Philippe ^a   Boniol, Mathieu ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79251518953     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62347-1     Document Type: Note

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