Educational inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality in Lithuania: A record linkage study

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Smailyte, Giedre ^a,d   Jasilionis, Domantas ^b   Ambrozaitiene, Dalia ^c   Stankuniene, Vlada ^d  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Statistics Lithuania   (Lithuania)

^d Lithuanian Social Research Centre   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Cancer mortality; Education; Record linkage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LITHUANIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84865863057     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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