Impact of Comorbidity on Survival of Invasive Bladder Cancer Patients, 1996-2007: A Danish Population-based Cohort Study

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 393-398

  Lund, Lars ^a,b   Jacobsen, Jacob ^c   Clark, Peter ^d   Borre, Michael ^c   Nørgaard, Mette ^b,c  

^a VIBORG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 75349099265     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.07.1320     Document Type: Article

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