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A prospective ascertainment of cancer incidence in sub‐Saharan Africa: The case of Kaposi sarcoma
In resource‐limited areas, such as sub‐Saharan Africa, problems in accurate cancer case ascertainment and enumeration of the at‐risk population make it difficult to estimate cancer incidence. We took advantage of a large well‐enumerated healthcare system to estimate the incidence of Kaposi sarcoma (...
Autores principales: | Semeere, Aggrey, Wenger, Megan, Busakhala, Naftali, Buziba, Nathan, Bwana, Mwebesa, Muyindike, Winnie, Amerson, Erin, Maurer, Toby, McCalmont, Timothy, LeBoit, Philip, Musick, Beverly, Yiannoutsos, Constantin, Lukande, Robert, Castelnuovo, Barbara, Laker‐Oketta, Miriam, Kambugu, Andrew, Glidden, David, Wools‐Kaloustian, Kara, Martin, Jeffrey |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26823008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cam4.618 |
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