Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 120-125 , April 2011

Trends in mortality and mean age at death from lung cancer in Austria (1975–2007)

  • Livia Borsoi

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    • Institute of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Institute of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Tel.: +43 1 4277 64707; fax: +43 1 4277 9647.
    • ,
  • Ursula Kunze

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Michael Kunze

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Ernest Groman

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Michael Kundi

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

,Accepted 25 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.06.018

Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 120-125 , April 2011

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