Differential Prognostic Impact of Comorbidity
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Vol. 22 (15) , 3099-3103
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2004.08.040
Abstract
Purpose Cancer patients with concurrent comorbid conditions have worse outcomes than patients with no comorbidities. We hypothesized that the prognostic impact of comorbidities would be greatest fo...Keywords
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