Journal article
The prognostic role of gender in survival of adult cancer patients. EUROCARE Working Group.
Abstract
Many observations indicate that women have a much longer expectancy of life than men. Some population-based studies on cancer patients support the idea of the role of gender in predicting survival. However, the data are somewhat contrasting and inconclusive. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the prognostic role of gender for cancer patients, making use of the large set of survival data made available by the EUROCARE II project for the …
Authors
Micheli A; Mariotto A; Giorgi Rossi A; Gatta G; Muti P
Journal
Eur J Cancer, Vol. 34, No. 14 Spec No, pp. 2271–2278
Publication Date
December 1998
DOI
10.1016/s0959-8049(98)00324-4
ISSN
0959-8049