A new prognostic model for testicular germ cell tumours

APMIS

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 100-105

  Von Eyben, Finn Edler ^a   Madsen, Ebbe Lindegaard ^e   Fritsche, Herbert ^b   Suciu, Gabriel ^c   Liu, Frank ^b   Amato, Robert ^d   Oliver, Tim ^e  

^a Center of Tobacco Control Research   (Denmark)

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

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Alpha fetoproteins; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes; Multivariate analyses; Prognosis; Testicular neoplasms

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE MODEL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS CARCINOMA;

GERMINOMA; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0037547108     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0463.2003.1110114_1.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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