The symptom-to-diagnosis delay in soft tissue sarcoma influence the overall survival and the development of distant metastasis

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 771-775

  Nakamura, Tomoki ^a   Matsumine, Akihiko ^a   Matsubara, Takao ^a   Asanuma, Kunihiro ^a   Uchida, Astumasa ^a   Sudo, Akihiro ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

delay; metastasis; soft tissue sarcoma; survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80255124826     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.22006     Document Type: Article

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