Surgical staging and cervical cancer: After 30 years, have we reached a conclusion?

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1874-1876

  Moore, David H ^a  

^a Gynecologic Oncology of Indiana   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42449105249     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23386     Document Type: Editorial

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