Cancer conferences: Can they be improved?

Cancer Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 305-308

  Guinan, Patrick D ^a   Imperato, Joseph P ^b   Chmiel, Joan S ^c   Vogelzang, Nicholas J ^d   Sylvester, JoAnne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b Lake Forest Hospital   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer conference; Quality of life issues; TNM staging; Tumor markers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CONGRESSES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031425824     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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