## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and the gastric cardia recently have experienced rapidly increasing incidence rates. Although these sites frequently are combined, they may have different risk factors. ## METHODS The authors compared regional incidence rates of esophage
Age effects and temporal trends in adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and gastric cardia (United States)
β Scribed by Jihyoun Jeon; E. Georg Luebeck; Suresh H. Moolgavkar
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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