Survival analysis of distant prostate cancer by decade (1973-1997) in the Detroit Metropolitan Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program Registry: Has outcome improved? (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 681-685

  Barnholtz Sloan, Jill S ^a,b   Severson, Richard K ^a   Vaishampayan, Ulka ^a   Hussain, Maha ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decade of diagnosis; Distant stage disease; Prostate cancer; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0141528661     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025675303370     Document Type: Article

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