Can global variation of nasopharynx cancer be retrieved from the combined analyses of IARC cancer information (CIN) databases?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Xin ^a   Tong, Li Ping ^a   Wang, Yu Tong ^a   Wu, Yong Xiang ^a   Sheng, Hong Shen ^b   Lu, Lian Jun ^a   Wang, Wen ^c  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chengdu Military General Hospital   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; REFERENCE DATABASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DATA BASE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960055303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022039     Document Type: Article

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