Cancer incidence among Danish Seventh-day Adventists and Baptists

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 513-518

  Thygesen, Lau Caspar ^a,b   Hvidt, Niels Christian ^c   Hansen, Helle Ploug ^c   Hoff, Andreas ^b   Ross, Lone ^d   Johansen, Christoffer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Incidence; Neoplasms; Protestantism; Religion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RELIGION; SMOKING; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROTESTANTISM; RELIGION AND MEDICINE;

EID: 84868302814     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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