Cutting back on computed tomography scan frequency in curative oncology: Get the picture

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1308-1309

  De Wit, Ronald ^a  

^a ERASMUS MC CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; ONCOLOGY; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248223061     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.10.2152     Document Type: Editorial

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