Cancer trends in Lebanon: A review of incidence rates for the period of 2003-2008 and projections until 2018

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shamseddine, Ali ^a   Saleh, Ahmad ^a   Charafeddine, Maya ^a   Seoud, Muhieddine ^a   Mukherji, Deborah ^a   Temraz, Sally ^a   Sibai, Abla M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Cancer; Lebanon; Surveillance; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; TREND ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BONE CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER REGISTRY; COLON CANCER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEBANON; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; THYROID CANCER; TREND STUDY; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SCREENING; EPIDEMIC; NEOPLASM; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SMOKING;

LEBANON;

EID: 84899471168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-12-4     Document Type: Article

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