Opportunities for cancer epidemiology in developing countries

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 909-917

  Rastogi, Tanuja ^a   Hildesheim, Allan ^a   Sinha, Rashmi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; ALCOHOL; AROMATIC AMINE; ARSENIC; BENZENE; CALCIUM OXIDE; CARBOHYDRATE; COAL; COCONUT OIL; CURCUMIN; DIESEL FUEL; DYE; INSULIN; PALM OIL; PESTICIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RADON; RAPESEED OIL; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SOMATOMEDIN C; VEGETABLE OIL;

AFRICA; ASIA; BETEL NUT; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CURCUMA LONGA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIDDLE EAST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STOMACH CANCER; TOBACCO; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VIRUS INFECTION;

DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH;

EID: 8144220627     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1475     Document Type: Review

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