European Journal of Cancer
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 1086-1092 , April 2010

What reasons lie behind long-term survival differences for gastric cancer within Europe?

  • Anne-Marie Bouvier

      Affiliations

    • Digestive Cancer Registry (INSERM U866), Dijon, France
    • ,
  • Milena Sant

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione IRCCS, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Arduino Verdecchia

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy
    • ,
  • David Forman

      Affiliations

    • Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry, Leeds, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Ronald Damhuis

      Affiliations

    • Rotterdam Cancer Registry, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    • ,
  • Jan Willem Coebergh

      Affiliations

    • Eindhoven Cancer Registry, Eindhoven, Netherlands
    • ,
  • Emanuele Crocetti

      Affiliations

    • Firenze Cancer Registry, Firenze, Italy
    • ,
  • Paolo Crosignani

      Affiliations

    • Lombardy Cancer Registry, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Lorenzo Gafa

      Affiliations

    • Ragusa Cancer Registry, Ragusa, Italy
    • ,
  • Guy Launoy

      Affiliations

    • Calvados Digestive Cancer Registry, Caen, France
    • ,
  • Carmen Martinez-Garcia

      Affiliations

    • Granada Cancer Registry, Granada, Spain
    • ,
  • Ivan Plesko

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Registry of Slovaquia, Bratislava, Slovaquia
    • ,
  • Vera Pompe-Kirn

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Registry of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • ,
  • Jadwiga Rachtan

      Affiliations

    • Cracow Cancer Registry, Cracow, Poland
    • ,
  • Michel Velten

      Affiliations

    • Bas-Rhin Cancer Registry, Strasbourg, France
    • ,
  • Marina Vercelli

      Affiliations

    • Liguria Region Cancer Registry, Genova, Italy
    • ,
  • Maria Zwierko

      Affiliations

    • Warsaw Cancer Registry, Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Jacques Esteve

      Affiliations

    • Service de Biostatistique, CH Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France
    • ,
  • Jean Faivre

      Affiliations

    • Digestive Cancer Registry (INSERM U866), Dijon, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Address: BP 87900, 21079 Dijon Cedex, France. Tel.: +33 3 80 39 33 40; fax: +33 3 80 66 82 51.

Received 6 October 2009 ,Revised 21 December 2009 ,Accepted 14 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2010.01.019

European Journal of Cancer
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 1086-1092 , April 2010

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