Learning to live with missing quality-of-life data in advanced-stage disease trials

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 7380-7384

  Donaldson, Gary W ^a   Moinpour, Carol M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST ONCOLOGY GROUP STATISTICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNCERTAINTY; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 32944459456     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.07.022     Document Type: Editorial

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