20-Years of Population-Based Cancer Registration in Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer Prevention in The Gambia, West Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bah, Ebrima ^a,d,f,g   Carrieri, Maria Patrizia ^b   Hainaut, Pierre ^c   Bah, Yusupha ^d,g   Nyan, Ousman ^e   Taal, Makie ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Gambia)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

^d National Cancer Registry   (Gambia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE GAMBIA   (Gambia)

^f TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^g The Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study ^*  (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84884767896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075775     Document Type: Article

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