What is Your Patient's GPA and Why does it Matter? Managing Brain Metastases and the Cost of Hope

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 643-644

  Sperduto, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GRADED PROGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING ANALYSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952653485     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.02.038     Document Type: Editorial

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