Follow-up of melanoma patients: The need for evidence-based protocols

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 804-805

  Francken, Anne Brecht ^a   Hoekstra, Harald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62149122609     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0318-7     Document Type: Editorial

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