A case-control study comparing the incidence of early symptoms in pancreatic and biliary tract cancer

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Keane, M G ^a   Horsfall, L ^a   Rait, G ^a   Pereira, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; BLOATING; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; JAUNDICE; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; PAIN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATITIS; PRURITUS; SHOULDER PAIN; STEATORRHEA; SYMPTOM; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BACK PAIN; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; BLOOD; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; INCIDENCE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; BACK PAIN; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84911916609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005720     Document Type: Article

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