Cancer incidence among patients of the U.S. Veterans affairs health care system

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 693-701

  Zullig, Leah L ^a,b   Jackson, George L ^a,c   Dorn, Raye Anne ^d   Provenzale, Dawn T ^a,c   McNeil, Rebecca ^a   Thomas, Catherine M ^a   Kelley, Michael J ^a,c,e  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM; PROSTATE TUMOR; REGISTER; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; VETERANS;

EID: 84864077867     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00434     Document Type: Article

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