Increasing trends in cervical cancer mortality among young Japanese women below the age of 50 years: An analysis using the kanagawa population-based cancer registry, 1975-2012

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 700-706

  Motoki, Yoko ^a   Mizushima, Shunsaku ^a   Taguri, Masataka ^b   Takahashi, Kenzo ^a,c   Asano, Ryoko ^a   Kato, Hisamori ^d   Asai Sato, Mikiko ^a   Katayama, Kayoko ^d   Okamoto, Naoyuki ^d   Hirahara, Fumiki ^a   Miyagi, Etsuko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANAGAWA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult; Cancer registries; Female; Japan; Mortality; Papanicolaou test; Papillomavirus vaccine; Uterine cervical neoplasm; Uterine neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE (CITIZEN); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; UTERUS CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; JAPAN; MORTALITY; REGISTER; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941733713     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2015.08.001     Document Type: Article

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