Patients and solipsism: The psychology of decision making for prostate cancer treatment

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-234

  Chamie, Karim ^a   Saigal, Christopher S ^a   Litwin, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPISTEMOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PSYCHOLOGY; REIMBURSEMENT; SOLIPSISM;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955711340     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2010.11.015     Document Type: Article

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