Waiting times for cancer patients - A "slippery slope" in oncology

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-123

  Rutqvist, Lars Erik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETIC STABILITY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWEDEN; THERAPY DELAY; TUMOR VOLUME;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645109035     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860600549204     Document Type: Editorial

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