A predictive model for survival in metastatic cancer patients attending an outpatient palliative radiotherapy clinic

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1291-1302

  Chow, Edward ^a,c   Fung, KinWah ^a   Panzarella, Tony ^b   Bezjak, Andrea ^b   Danjoux, Cyril ^a   Tannock, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Palliative radiotherapy; Prediction; Survival

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; TUMORS;

PROGNOSTIC FACTORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036680630     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)02832-8     Document Type: Article

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