Cost-effectiveness of posttreatment surveillance after radiation therapy for early stage seminoma

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1126-1133

  Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Walden, Thomas L ^b   Prestidge, Bradley R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Patterns of failure; Radiation; Seminoma; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ORCHIECTOMY; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032521287     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980315)82:6<1126::AID-CNCR17>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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