Classification and regression tree analysis of 1000 consecutive patients with unknown primary carcinoma

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3403-3410

  Hess, Kenneth R ^a   Abbruzzese, Marie C ^a   Lenzi, Renato ^a   Raber, Martin N ^a   Abbruzzese, James L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; CHILD; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032736994     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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