Increase in Female Liver Cancer in The Gambia, West Africa: Evidence from 19 Years of Population-Based Cancer Registration (1988–2006)

BACKGROUND: Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy worldwide with a high burden in West Africa. Male to female ratios show consistent bias toward males, the biological bases and variations of which are not well understood. We have used data from the Gambian National Cancer Registry to...

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Autores principales: Sighoko, Dominique, Curado, Maria Paula, Bourgeois, Denis, Mendy, Maimuna, Hainaut, Pierre, Bah, Ebrima
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3072390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018415

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3072390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018415

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