Cancer in Kashmir, India: Burden and pattern of disease

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-246

  Rasool, Malik Tariq ^a   Lone, Mohammad Maqbool ^a   Wani, Mohd Lateef ^a   Afroz, Fir ^a   Zaffar, Saqib ^a   Mohib Ul Haq, Malik ^a  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; cancer epidemiology; esophageal cancer; Kashmir valley; lung cancer; risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INDIA; LIFESTYLE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CANCER; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864718829     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.98978     Document Type: Article

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