Overtreatment of men with low-risk prostate cancer and significant comorbidity

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4805-

  Froehner, Michael ^a   Koch, Rainer ^a   Wirth, Manfred P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

COMORBIDITY; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80053909998     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26131     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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