Cancer incidence in Golestan province: Report of an ongoing population-based cancer registry in Iran between 2004 and 2008

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 196-200

  Roshandel, Gholamreza ^a,b   Sadjadi, Alireza ^a,c   Aarabi, Mohsen ^b   Keshtkar, Abbasali ^d   Sedaghat, Seyed Mehdi ^a   Nouraie, Seyed Mehdi ^b   Semnani, Shahryar ^b   Malekzadeh, Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cancer registry; Esophageal cancer; Golestan; Iran

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOLESTAN POPULATION BASED CANCER REGISTRY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER; IRAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY CANCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE CANCER; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; REGISTER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84862263545     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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