Data on 349,154 prostate cancer cases diagnosed since 1986 have been entered to the American College of Surgeons National Cancer Data Base (NCDB). Previous annual reports have examined subsets of these data. The present report highlights major trends in the presentation and treatment of prostate can
The national cancer data base report on prostate cancer
โ Scribed by Tim Aldrich; Wendy Demark-Wahnefried; Joellen M. Schildkraut; Eugene Lengerich; Elizabeth Conlisk; Curtis Mettlin; Gerald P. Murphy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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