Progress in cancer care: A rational call to do better

CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-11

  Thorson, Alan G ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB; RITUXIMAB; TRASTUZUMAB;

B CELL LYMPHOMA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST OF ILLNESS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; NEOPLASM; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY; ANTINEOPLASTIC PROTOCOLS; COST OF ILLNESS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75649115789     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: 15424863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/caac.20047     Document Type: Editorial

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