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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Main Authors: Jonathan Agner Forsberg, John Eberhardt, Patrick J Boland, Rikard Wedin, John H Healey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3094405?pdf=render