Recent trends in the cancer incidence, mortality, and 5-year survival rate for the black population were evaluated using the available national data up to 1981. Blacks have the highest overall age-adjusted cancer rates in both incidence and mortality of any US population group. The overall cancer in
Recent trends in cancer incidence among Singapore Chinese
β Scribed by H. P. Lee; S. W. Duffy; N. E. Day; K. Shanmugaratnam
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 719 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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