How to build and interpret a nomogram for cancer prognosis

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1364-1370

  Iasonos, Alexia ^a   Schrag, Deborah ^a   Raj, Ganesh V ^a   Panageas, Katherine S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOMOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NOMOGRAMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 41649106685     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.12.9791     Document Type: Review

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