Items Tagged ‘cancer data’

December 3, 2009

Healthcare: Tracking Cancer Data

By Kelley Luckstein

The most common cause of cancer-related death is lung cancer…   Overall, cancer death rates are higher in men than women… Smoking is a risk factor for throat cancer… The drug tamoxifen is effective for certain kinds of breast cancer.   Data such as this guides the work of clinicians, researchers and epidemiologists in the […]

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Tags: cancer data, cancer registrar