Four decades of anal cancer in Tasmania, Australia: What do the case data tell us?

Sexual Health

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-219

  Simpson, Steve ^a   Turner, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

case series; descriptive epidemiology; epidemiology; human papillomavirus; squamous cell carcinoma.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ICD-10; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84862539219     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: 14498987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH11002     Document Type: Article

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