Comparative multidisciplinary prediction of survival in patients with advanced cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 611-617

  Fairchild, A ^a   Debenham, B ^a   Danielson, B ^a   Huang, F ^a   Ghosh, S ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Multidisciplinary; Palliative; Radiotherapy; Survival prediction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION THERAPIST; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84895857035     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-2013-2     Document Type: Article

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