Determinants of Treatment Regret in Low-Income, Uninsured Men With Prostate Cancer

Urology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1274-1279

  Hu, Jim C ^a   Kwan, Lorna ^b   Krupski, Tracey L ^c   Anger, Jennifer T ^b,d   Maliski, Sally L ^b   Connor, Sarah ^b   Litwin, Mark S ^b,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56749091915     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.066     Document Type: Article

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