Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2015, Pages E359-E386

  Ferlay, Jacques ^a   Soerjomataram, Isabelle ^a   Dikshit, Rajesh ^b   Eser, Sultan ^c   Mathers, Colin ^d   Rebelo, Marise ^e   Parkin, Donald Maxwell ^f   Forman, David ^a   Bray, Freddie ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Global estimates; GLOBOCAN; Incidence; Mortality

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIP CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84918815964     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29210     Document Type: Article

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