The conditional probability of survival of patients with primary malignant brain tumors: Surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) data

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 485-491

  Davis, Faith G ^a   McCarthy, Bridget J ^a   Freels, Sally ^a   Kupelian, Varant ^a   Bondy, Melissa L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Conditional probability; Malignant; SEER; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032945178     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990115)85:2<485::AID-CNCR29>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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