Geographic patterns of cancer in the population-based registry of Egypt: Possible links to environmental exposures

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 254-264

  Dey, Subhojit ^a   Zhang, Zhenzhen ^b   Hablas, Ahmed ^c   Seifeldein, Ibrahim A ^c   Ramadan, Mohamed ^c   El Hamzawy, Hesham ^c   Soliman, Amr S ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Tanta Cancer Center   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer registries; Developing countries; Egypt; Environmental exposures; Geographic pattern

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955993887     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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