Open AccessAre cancers of the salivary gland increasing? Experience from Connecticut, USA
Author(s) -
Tongzhang Zheng,
Theodore R. Holford,
Ya-Lin Chen,
Barbara A. Ward,
W Liu,
John Flannery,
Peter Boyle
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/26.2.264
Subject(s) - medicine , salivary gland cancer , salivary gland , cohort , cancer , physiology , cohort effect , cancer registry , demography , oncology , sociology
Recent studies indicate that cancers of the salivary gland are increasing, and the factors responsible for the increase are unknown. Artefactual changes, such as shift in classifying cancers of the floor of the mouth to cancers of the salivary gland, could affect the time trend for salivary gland cancer.
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