Validation of clinical AJCC/UICC TNM staging system for hepatocellular carcinoma: Analysis of 5,613 cases from a medical center in southern Taiwan

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2650-2655

  Kee, Kwong Ming ^a   Wang, Jing Houng ^a   Lee, Chuan Mo ^a   Chen, Chao Long ^a   Changchien, Chi Sin ^a   Hu, Tsung Hui ^a   Cheng, Yu Fan ^a   Hsu, An Chih ^a   Wang, Chih Chi ^a   Chen, Tai Yi ^a   Lin, Chih Yun ^a   Lu, Sheng Nan ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Survival; TNM staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN;

EID: 34247498645     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22616     Document Type: Article

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