Peak and decline in cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence at old ages

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1371-1386

  Harding, Charles ^a   Pompei, Francesco ^a   Wilson, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer aging; incidence; mortality; prevalence; senescence; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SOLID TUMOR; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857366023     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26376     Document Type: Article

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