Fallopian Tube Cancer: Stepchild or Mother?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 386-387

  Gershenson, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FALLOPIAN TUBE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36348991958     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.10.032     Document Type: Editorial

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