Estimated life expectancy and risk of death from cancer by quartiles in the older Japanese population: 2010 vital statistics

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 511-514

  Iwamoto, Momoko ^a   Nakamura, Fumiaki ^b,c   Higashi, Takahiro ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged; Aged, 50 and over; Japanese; Life expectancy; Mortality; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGE; DECISION MAKING; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84908086098     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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