Are recommendations from carcinoma of the cervix Patterns of Care Studies (PCS) in the United States of America (USA) applicable to centers in developing countries?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 803-810

  Craighead, Peter S ^a,c   Smulian, Hubert G ^b   De Groot, Henk J ^b   Du Toit, Pierre F M ^a  

^a Provincial Hospital   (South Africa)

^b Livingstone Hospital   (South Africa)

^c TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Patterns of Care studies; Radiotherapy; Uterine cervix neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0030995140     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(96)00566-4     Document Type: Article

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