Are nomograms better than currently available stage groupings for bladder cancer?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 3819-3820

  Sternberg, Cora N ^a  

^a SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE; VINBLASTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; NOMOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RECURRENT CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BLADDER TUMOR; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NOMOGRAMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748464977     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.07.1290     Document Type: Editorial

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