Follow-up in colorectal cancer patients: A cost-benefit analysis

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 349-357

  Audisio, Riccardo A ^b   Setti Carraro, Paolo ^a,c   Segala, Marco ^a   Capko, Deborah ^b   Andreoni, Bruno ^b   Tiberio, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasm; Costs; Follow up; Reoperation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MONITORING; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030188010     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02305664     Document Type: Article

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