The search for meaning - Symptoms and transvaginal sonography screening for ovarian cancer: Silent no more

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 3606-3608

  Cass, Ilana ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SYMPTOM; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VAGINA;

EID: 68549123557     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24403     Document Type: Editorial

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