Sex disparities in cancer mortality: The risks of being a man in the United States

Journal of Urology

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1470-1474

  Najari, Bobby B ^a   Rink, Michael ^a,c   Li, Philip S ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^d   Scherr, Douglas S ^a   Shabsigh, Ridwan ^b   Meryn, Siegfried ^e   Schlegel, Peter N ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

female; male; mortality; neoplasms; SEER program

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BONE CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EYE CANCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER; TONGUE CANCER; UNITED STATES; URETER CANCER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875912636     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.11.153     Document Type: Article

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