Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 36, Issue 1 , Pages 8-10 , February 2012

Time trends and age–period–cohort analyses on incidence rates of nasopharyngeal carcinoma during 1993–2007 in Wuhan, China

  • Shao-Hua Xie

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Jie Gong

      Affiliations

    • Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Nian-Nian Yang

      Affiliations

    • Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
    • ,
  • Lap-Ah Tse

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
    • ,
  • Ya-Qiong Yan

      Affiliations

    • Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
    • ,
  • Ignatius Tak-Sun Yu

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School of Public Health, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China. Tel.: +852 22528773; fax: +852 26063500.

Received 7 March 2011 ,Revised 13 June 2011 ,Accepted 13 July 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2011.07.002

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