Some Elements of Prognosis in Terminal Cancer

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1165-1170

  Lamont, Elizabeth B ^b   Christakis, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0033175172     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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