Does the 'Scottish effect' apply to all ethnic groups? All-cancer, lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer in the Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Cohort Study

BMJ Open

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bhopal, Raj S ^a   Bansal, Narinder ^a   Steiner, Markus ^a,b   Brewster, David H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84869761700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001957     Document Type: Article

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