Five-year trends in mortality indices among gynecological cancer patients in Canada

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 620-624

  Akhtar Danesh, Noori ^a   Lytwyn, Alice ^a   Elit, Laurie ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crude probability of death; Excess mortality rate; Gynecological cancers; Mortality trends; Net probability of death; Relative survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84868541938     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.08.038     Document Type: Article

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