Global mesothelioma deaths reported to the World Health Organization between 1994 and 2008;Les décés mondiaux par mésothéliome rapportés á l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé entre 1994 et 2008

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Delgermaa, Vanya ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Park, Eun Kee ^a   Le, Giang Vinh ^a   Hara, Toshiyuki ^a   Sorahan, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATABASE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; PERICARDIUM; PERITONEUM; PLEURA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EUROPE; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053549859     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.086678     Document Type: Article

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