Simple or complex: Optimal therapy for cancer of the cervix

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 401-403

  Gaffney, David K ^a   Soisson, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

AFRICA; ASIA; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CYSTITIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROGNOSIS; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SMOKING CESSATION; SOUTH AMERICA; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VAGINITIS;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78149320559     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2010.09.018     Document Type: Editorial

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