Disarming the guarded prognosis: Predicting survival in newly referred patients with incurable cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-212

  Stockler, M R ^a,b,c   Tattersall, M H N ^a,b   Boyer, M J ^a,b   Clarke, S J ^a,b   Beale, P J ^a,b   Simes, R J ^a,c  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Physician patient relations; Prognosis; Survival analysis; Truth disclosure

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 31444440430     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602908     Document Type: Article

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