Factors affecting survival in patients with anal melanoma

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 917-920

  Podnos, Yale D ^a   Tsai, Ni Chun ^a   Smith, David ^a   Ellenhorn, Joshua D I ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; AGE; ANUS TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750684983     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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