Survival analysis of women with breast cancer under adjuvant therapy in South India

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1533-1535

  Venkatesan, P ^a   Raman, T T ^b   Ponnuraja, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b ST JOSEPH S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cox proportional hazards model; Kaplan Meier; time dependent Cox model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858037484     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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