Singapore cancer trends in the last decade

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-10

  Lim, G H ^a,b   Chow, K Y ^a   Lee, H P ^c  

^a National Registry of Diseases Office   (Singapore)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cancer; Incidence; Mortality; Singapore; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; NEOPLASM; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SINGAPORE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84862931672     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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