The American Cancer Society National Prostate Cancer Detection Project and national patterns of prostate cancer detection and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 265-272

  Mettlin, Curtis ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030870319     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.47.5.265     Document Type: Article

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