Cancers of the anal canal and anal margin

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 452-464

  Gervasoni Jr , James E ^a,b   Wanebo, Harold J ^b,c  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; ANAL MARGIN CANCER; ANORECTAL MELANOMA; ANUS CANCER; ANUS SPHINCTER; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOSTOMY; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UNITED STATES; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; VAGINA CANCER; VIRUS INFECTION; VULVA CANCER; WART VIRUS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MELANOMA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0041356902     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CNV-120018238     Document Type: Review

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