Renal cell carcinoma detected by screening shows better patient survival than that detected following symptoms in dialysis patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 468-473

  Ishikawa, Isao ^a   Honda, Ryumon ^a   Yamada, Yuichi ^a   Kakuma, Tatsuyuki ^b  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fukuoka Ken   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography scan; Hemodialysis; Prognosis; Renal cell carcinoma; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11444252823     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1774-9987.2004.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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