Current state of prostate cancer treatment in Jamaica

ecancermedicalscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Morrison, Belinda F ^a   Aiken, William D ^a   Mayhew, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Jamaica; Outcomes; Prostate cancer; Radiation; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; BICALUTAMIDE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CYPROTERONE; GOSERELIN; KETOCONAZOLE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEPHROSTOMY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; THERAPY DELAY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UROLOGICAL CARE;

EID: 84907008842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17546605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2014.456     Document Type: Article

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