Predicting lung cancer deaths from smoking prevalence data

Lung Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-177

  Winkler, Volker ^a   Ng, Nawi ^b   Tesfaye, Fikru ^c   Becher, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Ethiopia; Lung neoplasms; Mortality; Smoking; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHIOPIA; GERMANY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 80053625537     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: 18728332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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