Prostate cancer - Which treatment to choose?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1352-

  Adkison, Jarrod B ^b   Ritter, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWITZERLAND; MORTALITY; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR; REGISTER;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 46449127170     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.12.1352-a     Document Type: Letter

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