Patterns of care for men diagnosed with prostate cancer in Victoria from 2008 to 2011

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 198, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 540-545

  Evans, Sue M ^a   Millar, Jeremy L ^b   Davis, Ian D ^a   Murphy, Declan G ^c,d   Bolton, Damien M ^e   Giles, Graham G ^f   Frydenberg, Mark ^a,g   Andrianopoulos, Nick ^a   Wood, Julie M ^a   Frauman, Albert G ^h   Costello, Anthony J ^c   McNeil, John J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Australian Prostate Cancer Research   (Australia)

^d PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^e HEIDELBERG REPATRIATION HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^g CABRINI INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGISTRIES; VICTORIA; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84878575220     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.11241     Document Type: Article

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