Long-term survival rates of laryngeal cancer patients treated by radiation and surgery, radiation alone, and surgery alone: Studied by lognormal and Kaplan-Meier survival methods

BMC Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tai, Patricia ^a   Yu, Edward ^b   Shiels, Ross ^a   Tonita, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHI SQUARE TEST; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNX CANCER; LOGNORMAL MODEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LARYNX TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 26844433952     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-13     Document Type: Article

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