Incidence and 5-year survival rate for head and neck cancers in Grenada compared to the African American population over the period 1991-2010.
Very little data exist on the incidence and burden of cancer in the individual Caribbean countries. Some data are available for larger areas, reported under a bigger geographical region; Latin America and the Caribbean, but many of the individual countries are not included. One of the main reasons i...
| Publicado en: | Cancer Causes & Control Vol. 28; no. 11; pp. 1227 - 1240 |
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Springer Nature
Nov2017
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