Effects of Birth Cohort on Long-Term Trends in Mortality From Colorectal Cancer

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1389-1394

  Sonnenberg, Amnon ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort Study; Colonoscopy Screening; Epidemiology; Helicobacter pylori

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FRANCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PEPTIC ULCER; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869483112     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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