Time to rethink TNM staging in cutaneous SCC

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 702-703

  Veness, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN SURGERY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47849086650     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(08)70185-2     Document Type: Letter

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