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Describing mortality trends for major cancer sites in 133 intermediate regions of Brazil and an ecological study of its causes

BACKGROUND: In Brazil, 211 thousand (16.14%) of all death certificates in 2016 identified cancer as the underlying cause of death, and it is expected that around 320 thousand will receive a cancer diagnosis in 2019. We aimed to describe trends of cancer mortality from 1996 to 2016, in 133 intermedia...

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Autores principales: Bigoni, Alessandro, Ferreira Antunes, José Leopoldo, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Kjærheim, Kristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6788078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31604464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6184-1