Open AccessThe geographic variation of cancer incidence in Ontario.
Author(s) -
Stephen D. Walter,
S.E. Birnie,
Loraine D. Marrett,
S. Martin Taylor,
Donna Reynolds,
J M Davies,
Jason Drake,
Michael Hayes
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.84.3.367
Subject(s) - cancer registry , demography , spatial analysis , cancer , incidence (geometry) , cancer incidence , medicine , residence , geographic variation , geography , environmental health , population , statistics , mathematics , geometry , sociology
Our objectives were (1) to describe an analysis of the spatial pattern of cancer incidence in Ontario and (2) to discuss the quality of data in the Ontario Cancer Registry with respect to the accuracy of local cancer rates.