Predicting the survival of cancer patients recently diagnosed in Sweden and an evaluation of predictions published in 2004

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-27

  Talbck, Mats ^a,b   Dickman, Paul W ^b  

^a NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BONE CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; EYE CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LIP CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUSCLE CANCER; NEURINOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NOSE CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM ADENOMA; SEMINOMA; SMALL INTESTINE CARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; TESTIS NONSEMINOMA CANCER; THYROID CANCER; URETHRA CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 83455181708     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2011.626444     Document Type: Article

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