Limitations of assessing value in robotic surgery for prostate cancer: What data should patients and physicians use to make the best decision?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1394-1395

  Sundi, Debasish ^a   Han, Misop ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOT ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR;

HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84902831107     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.54.9741     Document Type: Editorial

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