Population-based cancer incidence in Sikkim, India: Report on ethnic variation

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 962-965

  Verma, Y ^a   Pradhan, P K ^a   Gurung, N ^a   Sapkota, S D ^a   Giri, P ^a   Sundas, P ^a   Bhattarai, B N ^a   Nadayil, D ^b   Ramnath, T ^b   Nandakumar, A ^b  

^a Sir Thutob Namgyal Memorial Hospital   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

incidence; India; Sikkim

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; INDIA; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OVARY CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TONGUE CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SIKKIM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84857775034     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.598     Document Type: Article

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