Lack of active follow-up of cancer patients in Chennai, India: implications for population-based survival estimates.

OBJECTIVE: To measure the bias in absolute cancer survival estimates in the absence of active follow-up of cancer patients in developing countries. METHODS: Included in the study were all incident cases of the 10 most common cancers and corresponding subtypes plus all tobacco-related cancers not ran...

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Publicado en:Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 86; no. 7; pp. 509 - 516
Autores principales: Swaminathan R, Rama R, Shanta V
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: World Health Organization Jul2008
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