Canadian trends in cancer prevalence

Health Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ellison, Larry F ^a   Wilkins, Kathryn ^b  

^a HEALTH STATISTICS DIVISION   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Neoplasms; Registries; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857746334     PISSN: 08406529     EISSN: 12091367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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