Keywords
CervixMedicineCancerBreast cancerLung cancerOncologyGynecologyInternal medicine
MeSH Terms
BreastCervix UteriFemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsNeoplasmsStatistics as TopicUterus
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- 1951
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- 11
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1269-75
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- 699
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- Closed
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Jerome Cornfield
(1951).
A Method of Estimating Comparative Rates from Clinical Data. Applications to Cancer of the Lung, Breast, and Cervix.
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
, 11
(6)
, 1269-75.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/11.6.1269
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- DOI
- 10.1093/jnci/11.6.1269
- PMID
- 14861651