The national cancer data base report on completeness of American Joint Committee on Cancer staging in United States cancer facilities

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1498-1504

  Fleming, Irvin D ^a   Phillips, Jerri Linn ^b   Menck, Herman R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

American Joint Committee on Cancer; cancer staging; case management; National Cancer Data Base

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CASE MANAGEMENT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029822801     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961001)78:7<1498::AID-CNCR18>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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