Global trends in incidence and mortality of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Cancer Letters

Volumn 374, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 22-30

  Tang, Ling Ling ^a   Chen, Wan Qing ^b   Xue, Wen Qiong ^a   He, Yong Qiao ^a   Zheng, Rong Shou ^b   Zeng, Yi Xin ^a   Jia, Wei Hua ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b National Cancer Center   (China)

Author keywords

Incidence; Joinpoint analysis; Mortality; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Trends

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TREND STUDY; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; TRENDS;

FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84959341833     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: 18727980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2016.01.040     Document Type: Article

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