Lung cancer in South Africa: A forecast to 2025 based on smoking prevalence data

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Winkler, Volker ^a   Mangolo, Nosimanana J ^a   Becher, Heiko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926469895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006993     Document Type: Article

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