A novel and accurate computer model of melanoma prognosis for patients staged by sentinel lymph node biopsy: Comparison with the American joint committee on cancer model

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 608-617

  Callender, Glenda G ^a   Gershenwald, Jeffrey E ^b   Egger, Michael E ^a   Scoggins, Charles R ^a   Martin II, Robert C G ^a   Schacherer, Christopher W ^b   Edwards, Michael J ^c   Urist, Marshall M ^d   Ross, Merrick I ^b   Stromberg, Arnold J ^e   McMasters, Kelly M ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

AJCC; American Joint Committee on Cancer; CCC; concordance correlation coefficient; OS; overall survival; sentinel lymph node; SLN

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863399591     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.12.027     Document Type: Article

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