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multicriteria decision-making in nonmedical fields. The
resulting information and diagnostic and therapeutic
approaches, when applied to prostate cancer, for instance,
may have less uncertainty than when the sources are
evaluated individually and separately.
Conflicts of interest:
The authors have nothing to disclose.
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a,
*
Antonio Lopez-Beltran
b
Liang Cheng
c
Silvia Gasparrini
a
[3_TD$DIFF]
Maria Alessandra Montironi
d
Francesco Massari
e
Marina Scarpelli
a
Francesco Montorsi
f
[1_TD$DIFF]
a
Section of Pathological Anatomy, Polytechnic University of the Marche
Region, School of Medicine, United Hospitals, Ancona, Italy
b
Pathology Service, Champalimaud Clinical Center, Lisbon, Portugal
c
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University
School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
d
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of
California, Davis, CA, USA
e
Division of Oncology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
f
Unit of Urology/Division of Oncology, Urological Research Institute, IRCCS
Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
*Corresponding author. Section of Pathological Anatomy, Polytechnic
University of the Marche Region, School of Medicine, United Hospitals,
Via Conca 71, I-60126 Ancona, Italy. Tel. +39 071 5964830;
Fax: +39 071 889985.
E-mail address:
r.montironi@univpm.it(R. Montironi).
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