Gastrointestinal cancer incidence in east Azerbaijan, Iran: Update on 5 year incidence and trends

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3945-3949

  Somi, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Golzari, Mehrad ^b   Farhang, Sara ^c   Naghashi, Shahnaz ^a   Abdollahi, Leila ^c  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cancer registry; East Azerbaijan; Gastrointestinal cancer; Trend

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AZERBAIJAN; CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; INFANT; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AZERBAIJAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902664449     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2014.15.9.3945     Document Type: Article

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