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Bladder Cancer
Research on bladder cancer published by scientists at University of Texas
June 30th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Patients with bladder cancer face a variable risk of recurrence based on their clinical characteristics and the biology of their disease. Physicians need tools to accurately estimate the risk of recurrence and cancer-specific mortality to recommend individualized therapy and to design appropriate clinical trials." "A MEDLINE literature search was performed on bladder cancer nomograms from January 1966 to July 2007. We recorded input variables, prediction form, number of patients used to develop the prediction tools, the outcome being predicted, prediction tool-specific features, predictive accuracy, and whether validation...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-30)
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