Survival and prognostic factors of endometrial cancer patients in Iceland 1964-1985: Can attendance at population-based pap-smear screening affect survival?

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 166-174

  Sigurdsson, Kristján ^a,b   Sigurdardottir, Bergthóra ^a   Steinsson, Stefán ^a,b   Benediktsdottir, Kristrún ^b   Sigurvinsson, Trausti ^a   Sigvaldason, Helgi ^a  

^a ICELANDIC CANCER SOCIETY   (Iceland)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0031919076     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980417)79:2<166::AID-IJC12>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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