Predicting five-year outcome for patients with cutaneous melanoma in a population-based study

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 427-432

  Barnhill, Raymond L ^a   Fine, Judith A ^b   Roush, George C ^c   Berwick, Marianne ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

five year survival; malignant melanoma; population based; prognosis; skin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ELASTOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MITOSIS RATE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029975663     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960801)78:3<427::AID-CNCR8>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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