How many cancer cases and deaths are potentially preventable? Estimates for Australia in 2013

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 691-701

  Wilson, Louise F ^a   Antonsson, Annika ^a,b   Green, Adele C ^a,b,c   Jordan, Susan J ^a,b   Kendall, Bradley J ^a,b,d   Nagle, Christina M ^a,b   Neale, Rachel E ^a,b   Olsen, Catherine M ^a,b   Webb, Penelope M ^a,b   Whiteman, David C ^a,b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

mortality; neoplasms; population attributable fraction; primary prevention; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CHILD; COLORECTAL CANCER; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; NEWBORN; OBESITY; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSED MEAT; RED MEAT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VEGETABLE; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85032214195     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31088     Document Type: Article

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