Marital status and survival in pancreatic cancer patients: A SEER based analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Baine, Michael ^a   Sahak, Freshta ^b   Lin, Chi ^b   Chakraborty, Subhankar ^b   Lyden, Elizabeth ^a   Batra, Surinder K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; CANCER REGISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958774004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021052     Document Type: Article

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