Letter to the editor [4]

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 364-365

  Adli, Mustafa ^a   Sevinc, Alper ^a   Kalender, Mehmet E ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESICS; BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644759442     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj077     Document Type: Letter

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