Application of conditional probability analysis to distant metastases from lung cancer

Oncology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 629-634

  Oikawa, Akihiro ^a   Takahashi, Hideto ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroichi ^b   Kurishima, Koichi ^a   Kagohashi, Katsunori ^a   Satoh, Hiroaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Lung cancer; Metastases; Metastatic patterns; Non randomness; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL METASTASIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER PATIENT; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY ANALYSIS; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84855716595     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2011.535     Document Type: Article

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