The impact of radiation on early breast carcinoma survival: A Bayesian analysis

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1035-1042

  Levitt, Seymour H ^a,b   Aeppli, Dorothee M ^b   Nierengarten, Mary E ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; early breast carcinoma; lumpectomy; radiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029846381     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960901)78:5<1035::AID-CNCR13>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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