Treatment delay of bone tumours, compilation of a sociodemographic risk profile: A retrospective study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schnurr, Christoph ^a   Pippan, Mathias ^b   Stuetzer, Hartmut ^c   Delank, Karl S ^a   Michael, Joern W P ^a   Eysel, Peer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b St Josef Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OCCUPATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERAPY DELAY; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40549127157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-22     Document Type: Article

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