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Skin Cancer in U.S. Elderly Adults: Does Life Expectancy Play a Role in Treatment Decisions?
OBJECTIVES: To examine whether life expectancy influences treatment pattern of nonmelanoma skin cancer, or keratinocyte carcinoma (KC), the most common malignancy and the fifth most costly cancer to Medicare. DESIGN: Nationally representative cross‐sectional study. SETTING: Nationally representative...
Autores principales: | Linos, Eleni, Chren, Mary‐Margaret, Stijacic Cenzer, Irena, Covinsky, Kenneth E. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459407/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14202 |
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