Capture rate and representativity of the National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 158-163

  Tomic, Katarina ^a   Berglund, Anders ^b   Robinson, David ^a,c   Hjälm Eriksson, Marie ^d   Carlsson, Stefan ^d,e   Lambe, Mats ^b,f   Stattin, Pär ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Jönköping Hospital   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e Stockholm Gotland Regional Cancer Centre   (Sweden)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ANTIANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SWEDEN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84921753732     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2014.939299     Document Type: Article

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