Estimating prevalence of distant metastatic breast cancer: A means of filling a data gap

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1625-1634

  Clements, Mark S ^a,b   Roder, David M ^c   Yu, Xue Qin ^d   Egger, Sam ^d   O'Connell, Dianne L ^d,e,f,g  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre Australia   (Australia)

^d CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epidemiology; Metastatic cancer; Prevalence; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867020404     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-012-0040-9     Document Type: Article

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