Black-white differences in cancer risk in Harare, Zimbabwe, during 1991-2010

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1416-1421

  Chokunonga, Eric ^a   Windridge, Peter ^b   Sasieni, Peter ^b   Borok, Margaret ^a   Parkin, D Maxwell ^b  

^a Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry   (Zimbabwe)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; cancer; ethnic differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONJUNCTIVAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXPOSURE; EYE CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEUKEMIA; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ZIMBABWE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; REGISTER; RISK;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RISK; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84954398752     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29883     Document Type: Article

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