Can observational data replace randomized trials?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 3355-3356

  McGale, Paul ^a   Cutter, David ^a   Darby, Sarah C ^a   Henson, Katherine E ^a   Jagsi, Reshma ^b   Taylor, Carolyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BILATERAL CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; MASTECTOMY; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BREAST TUMOR; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84989927242     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2016.68.8879     Document Type: Letter

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