Rural residency and prostate cancer specific mortality: Results from the Victorian Radical Prostatectomy Register

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 449-454

  Papa, Nathan ^a,b   Lawrentschuk, Nathan ^a   Muller, David ^b   Macinnis, Robert ^b   Ta, Anthony ^a   Severi, Gianluca ^b   Millar, Jeremy ^c   Syme, Rodney ^d   Giles, Graham ^b   Bolton, Damien ^a  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Epworth Freemasons Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

population study; prostate cancer; rural health

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTER; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84908219474     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: 17536405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12210     Document Type: Article

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