Prognostic factors in the diagnostic work-up of cancer patients in an internal medicine department: Does age matter?

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1723-1729

  Domingo, E ^a   Surinach J M ^a   Murillo, J ^b   Duran, M ^a   Surinach J ^b   Baselga, J ^a   De Sevilla, T F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CHOLESTEROL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CYTOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HAZARD RATIO; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SHORT FORM 36; SURVIVAL; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 54049135210     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: 17421241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2008.01886.x     Document Type: Article

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