Cancer in the elderly

Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Petera, Jiří ^a   Dušek, Ladislav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; GERIATRICS; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875274592     PISSN: 15071367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rpor.2012.11.001     Document Type: Editorial

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