Do diagnostic and treatment delays for colorectal cancer increase risk of death?

Background: Using 1998-2005 SEER-Medicare data, we examined the effect of diagnostic and treatment delays on all-cause and colorectal cancer (CRC)-specific death among US adults aged ≥ 66 years with invasive colon or rectal cancer. We hypothesized that longer delays would be associated with a greate...

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Publicado en:Cancer Causes & Control Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 961 - 978
Autores principales: Pruitt, Sandi L, Harzke, Amy Jo, Davidson, Nicholas O, Schootman, Mario
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature May2013
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