The relative accuracy of the clinical estimation of the duration of life for patients with end of life cancer

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 170-176

  Viganò, Antonio ^a   Dorgan, Marlene ^b   Bruera, Eduardo ^a   Suarez Almazor, Maria E ^b  

^a GREY NUNS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

End of life cancer; Life expectancy; Prognosis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0033168454     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990701)86:1<170::AID-CNCR23>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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