Variation in advanced stage at diagnosis of lung and female breast cancer in an English region 2006-2009

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1068-1075

  Lyratzopoulos, G ^a   Abel, G A ^a   Barbiere, J M ^a   Brown, C H ^b   Rous, B A ^b   Greenberg, D C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

advanced; age; diagnosis; imputation; multiple; stage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858277514     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.30     Document Type: Article

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