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Variations in societal characteristics of spatial disease clusters: examples of colon, lung and breast cancer in Japan

BACKGROUND: Spatial analyses and ecological studies are essential for epidemiology and public health. The present study combining these two methods was performed to identify spatial clusters of selected types of cancer in Japan and to determine their societal characteristics focusing on homogeneity...

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Autores principales: Fukuda, Yoshiharu, Umezaki, Masahiro, Nakamura, Keiko, Takano, Takehito
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1177982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15953394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-4-16