Trends in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in the Israeli Jewish ethnic populations

Familial Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 207-214

  Barchana, Micha ^a   Liphshitz, Irena ^a   Rozen, Paul ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ashkenazi, colorectal cancer, incidence, Jews, Sephardi, survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 8544246460     PISSN: 13899600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-004-9546-y     Document Type: Article

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