Failure rates in the hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance process

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1124-1130

  Singal, Amit G ^a,b,c   Yopp, Adam C ^a,b   Gupta, Samir ^a,b,c   Skinner, Celette Sugg ^b,c   Halm, Ethan A ^a,c   Okolo, Eucharia ^a   Nehra, Mahendra ^a   Lee, William M ^a   Marrero, Jorge A ^d   Tiro, Jasmin A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84866148504     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: 19406215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-12-0046     Document Type: Article

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