Relationship of first-year costs of treating localized prostate cancer to initial choice of therapy and stage at diagnosis: Results from the CAPSURE database

Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 499-503

  Penson, David F ^a,f   Schonfeld, Warren H ^b   Flanders, Scott C ^c   Henke, Curtis J ^b   Warolin, Karen L ^b   Carroll, Peter R ^d   Litwin, Mark S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LEWIN GROUP   (United States)

^c TAP PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST; COST CONTROL; DATA BASE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; ORCHIECTOMY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIRECT SERVICE COSTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035123729     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(00)01033-5     Document Type: Article

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