Trends of stomach cancer mortality in Eastern Asia in 1950-2004: Comparative study of Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore using age, period and cohort analysis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 930-936

  Tanaka, Masahiro ^a   Ma, Enbo ^b   Tanaka, Hideo ^c   Ioka, Akiko ^a   Nakahara, Toshitaka ^d   Takahashi, Hideto ^b  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

age period and cohort; Asia; mortality; stomach cancer; the United States

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; JAPAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT INTAKE; SEX RATIO; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINGAPORE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053573022     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.26080     Document Type: Article

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