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Estimating Survival in Patients with Operable Skeletal Metastases: An Application of a Bayesian Belief Network

BACKGROUND: Accurate estimations of life expectancy are important in the management of patients with metastatic cancer affecting the extremities, and help set patient, family, and physician expectations. Clinically, the decision whether to operate on patients with skeletal metastases, as well as the...

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Autores principales: Forsberg, Jonathan Agner, Eberhardt, John, Boland, Patrick J., Wedin, Rikard, Healey, John H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21603644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019956