Hypoxia-induced treatment failure in advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix is primarily due to hypoxia-induced radiation resistance rather than hypoxia-induced metastasis

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 354-359

  Rofstad, E K ^a   Sundfor K ^a   Lyng, H ^a   Trope C G ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cervix carcinoma; Hypoxia; Metastasis; Oxygen tension; Radiation resistance

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0033922706     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2000.1266     Document Type: Article

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