Establishment of a multidisciplinary hepatocellular carcinoma clinic is associated with improved clinical outcome

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1287-1295

  Yopp, Adam C ^a   Mansour, John C ^a   Beg, Muhammad S ^a   Arenas, Juan ^a   Trimmer, Clayton ^a   Reddick, Mark ^a   Pedrosa, Ivan ^a   Khatri, Gaurav ^a   Yakoo, Takeshi ^a   Meyer, Jeffrey J ^a   Shaw, Jacqueline ^a   Marrero, Jorge A ^b   Singal, Amit G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVERALL SURVIVAL; TIME TO TREATMENT;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84896098473     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-3413-8     Document Type: Article

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