The rise and fall of cancer mortality in the USA: Why does pancreatic cancer not follow the trend?

Future Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 917-919

  Ma, Jiemin ^a   Jemal, Ahmedin ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

mortality; pancreatic cancer; screening; smoking; survival

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILIAL ATYPICAL MULTIPLE MOLE MELANOMA SYNDROME; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; OBESITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880236924     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.13.76     Document Type: Review

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