The impact of socioeconomic status on prostate cancer treatment and survival in the Southern Netherlands

Urology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 593-601

  Aarts, Mieke J ^a   Koldewijn, Evert L ^b   Poortmans, Philip M ^b   Coebergh, Jan Willem W ^b   Louwman, Marieke ^b  

^a Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84875373168     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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