Current research directions for locally advanced cervix cancer

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 468-472

  Long III, Harry J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; VINBLASTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; RESEARCH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RESEARCH; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 2442602364     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-003-0007-9     Document Type: Review

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