Skeletal-related events and mortality among men diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer: The impact of alternative measures of radiation to the bone.

Skeletal-related events and mortality among men diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer: The impact of alternative measures of radiation to the bone.

<h4>Purpose/objective(s)</h4>Skeletal-related events (SREs), which include radiation to the bone (RtB), can occur among patients with bone metastasis (BM). There is a recognized potential for misclassification of RtB when using claims data. We compared alternative measures of RtB to bett...

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Main Authors: Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Young Kwok, Jay P Ciezki, Candice Yong, Catherine Plaisant, Chandana A Reddy, C Daniel Mullins, Brian Seal, Adriana Valderrama, Arif Hussain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175956

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