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Patients’ Survival Expectations before Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment by Treatment Status
Ravinder Mohan, Hind Beydoun, Myra L. Barnes-Ely, LaShonda Lee, John W. Davis, Raymond Lance and Paul Schellhammer
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2009, 22 (3) 247-256; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2009.03.080200
Ravinder Mohan
MD, PhD
Hind Beydoun
PhD
Myra L. Barnes-Ely
MPH
LaShonda Lee
MPH
John W. Davis
MD
Raymond Lance
MD

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Patients’ Survival Expectations before Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment by Treatment Status
Ravinder Mohan, Hind Beydoun, Myra L. Barnes-Ely, LaShonda Lee, John W. Davis, Raymond Lance, Paul Schellhammer
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2009, 22 (3) 247-256; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.03.080200
Patients’ Survival Expectations before Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment by Treatment Status
Ravinder Mohan, Hind Beydoun, Myra L. Barnes-Ely, LaShonda Lee, John W. Davis, Raymond Lance, Paul Schellhammer
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2009, 22 (3) 247-256; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.03.080200
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