Audit of prostate cancer: Validity and feasibility of registry-based staging

Public Health

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 157-160

  Silcocks, P ^a,b   Needham, P ^b   Hemsley, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTON PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Cancer registration; Cox regression; Stage

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER STATISTICS; CANCER SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS; PROSTATE CANCER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032841085     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3506(99)00145-6     Document Type: Article

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