LL Humphrey, M Helfand, BKS Chan, SH … - Annals of Internal …, 2002 - Am Coll Physicians Study Selection: Eight randomized, controlled trials of mammography and 2 trials evaluating
breast self-examination were included. One hundred fifty-four publications of the results of these
trials, as well as selected articles about the test characteristics and harms associated with ... Cited by 571 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►ascopubs.org [PDF] M Extermann, J Overcash, GH Lyman, J Parr, … - Journal of Clinical …, 1998 - jco.ascopubs.org Purpose: Comorbidity is a frequent and often thera- peutically limiting problem in older cancer
patients. However, to date, there is no standard measure of the comorbidity burden available
for these patients. We tested the performance of two comorbidity scales and their ... Cited by 394 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
R Yancik, MN Wesley, LAG Ries, RJ Havlik, BK … - Jama, 2001 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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- ►74.43.132.23 [PDF] RA Smith, D Saslow, K Andrews Sawyer, W … - CA: a cancer journal for …, 2003 - Am Cancer Soc The underlying premise for breast cancer screening is that it allows for the detection of breast
cancers before they become palpable. Breast cancer is a progressive disease, and small tumors
are more likely to be early stage disease, have a better prognosis, and are more ... Cited by 274 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 14 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org SG Diab, RM Elledge, GM Clark - JNCI Journal of the National …, 2000 - jnci.oxfordjournals.org Background: The number of elderly patients with breast cancer is increasing. Limited age-related
information available about this disease prompted this study. Patients and Methods: The study
population was derived from 50828 and 256287 patients with invasive breast cancer in ... Cited by 262 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org [PDF] R Ballard-Barbash, AL Potosky, LC Harlan … - JNCI Journal of the …, 1996 - jnci.oxfordjournals.org Background: In addition to demographic and health care-re- lated characteristics, the age and
physiologic status of women at the time of breast cancer diagnosis have been reported to influence
receipt of standard treatments. Pre- vious studies of the influence of age and comorbidity ... Cited by 256 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►alphamedpress.org L Balducci, M Extermann - The Oncologist, 2000 - AlphaMed Press The management of cancer in the older aged person is an increasingly common problem. The
questions arising from this problem are: Is the patient going to die with cancer or of cancer? Is
the patient able to tolerate the stress of antineoplastic therapy? Is the treatment producing ... Cited by 240 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
- ►jcojournal.org L Repetto, L Fratino, RA Audisio, A Venturino, … - Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - jcojournal.org From the Unità Operativa Geriatria Oncologica, Istituto Nazionale di Riposo e Cura per Anziani
and Unità di Oncologia, Ospedale Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina, Roma; Divisione di Oncologia
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M Extermann - European Journal of Cancer, 2000 - Elsevier The aim of this article was to provide oncology researchers with adequate tools and practical
advice to integrate comorbidity into clinical studies. Open research questions are also
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