Comparative effectiveness research: Opportunities in surgical oncology

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-48

  Neuman, Heather B ^a   Greenberg, Caprice C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC PROSTATECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTIC PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84888882102     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: 15329461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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