High-cost imaging in elderly patients with stage IV cancer: Challenges for research, policy, and practice

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 104, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1113-1114

  Yabroff, K Robin ^a   Warren, Joan L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864958075     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djs316     Document Type: Editorial

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