Cancer survival for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: A national study of survival rates and excess mortality

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Condon, John R ^a   Zhang, Xiaohua ^a,b   Baade, Peter ^a,c   Griffiths, Kalinda ^a,d   Cunningham, Joan ^a   Roder, David M ^e   Coory, Michael ^f   Jelfs, Paul L ^g   Threlfall, Tim ^h  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN TERRITORY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^c CANCER COUNCIL QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS   (Australia)

^h DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Australian Aboriginal; Cancer; Cause specific survival; Indigenous Australian; Relative survival; Survival; Torres Strait Islander

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893202464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-12-1     Document Type: Article

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