Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 226-231 , June 2010

Renal cell cancer in Israel: Sex and ethnic differences in incidence and mortality, 1980–2004

  • Jalal Tarabeia

      Affiliations

    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    • School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-aviv, Israel. Tel.: +972 3 697 3548; fax: +972 3 697 3977.
    • ,
  • Dorit Nitzan Kaluski

      Affiliations

    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    • ,
  • Micha Barchana

      Affiliations

    • Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Israel
    • Cancer Registry, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Rita Dichtiar

      Affiliations

    • Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Israel
    • ,
  • Manfred S. Green

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel

,Accepted 6 January 2010.

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☆ This study was supported by the Stanley Steyer Institute for Epidemiology and Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

PII: S1877-7821(10)00005-6

doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.01.002

Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 226-231 , June 2010

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