An alternative approach to monitoring cancer patient survival
CancerPublished 1 November 1996
Hermann Brenner, Olaf Gefeller
Citations352
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Compared with traditional methods of monitoring survival, period monitoring can advance detection of changes in cumulative survival considerably, and offers a useful supplement to existing methods of Monitoring patient survival.
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Despite some limitations with respect to the ease of data interpretation. period monitoring offers a useful supplement to existing methods of monitoring patient survival.
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