Disease control of uterine cervical cancer: Relationships to tumor oxygen tension, vascular density, cell density, and frequency of mitosis and apoptosis measured before treatment and during radiotherapy

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1104-1112

  Lyng, Heidi ^a   Sundfør, Kolbein ^a   Tropé, Claes ^a   Rofstad, Einar K ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MITOSIS; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COUNT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034016439     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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