Leukemia Research
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 903-908 , October 2002

Trends in mortality from non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas

  • Fabio Levi

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Epidemiology Unit and Cancer Registries of Vaud and Neuchâtel, Institut Universitaire de Médecine, Sociale et Préventive, CHUV-Falaises 1, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41-21-314-73-11; fax: +41-21-323-03-03
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  • Franca Lucchini

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Epidemiology Unit and Cancer Registries of Vaud and Neuchâtel, Institut Universitaire de Médecine, Sociale et Préventive, CHUV-Falaises 1, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Eva Negri

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Carlo La Vecchia

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy
    • Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Venezian 1, 20133 Milan, Italy

Received 19 December 2001 ,Accepted 9 February 2002.

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