Why do patients with radiation-induced sarcomas have a poor sarcoma-related survival

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-306

  Bjerkehagen, B ^a,b,c   Smstuen, M C ^c,d   Hall, K S ^a,b,c   Skjeldal, S ^a,b,c   Smeland, S ^c,e,f   Foss, S D ^a,b,c,d,f  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d Department of Oncology   (Norway)

^e Divisions of Surgery and Cancer Medicine   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

prognosis; radiation; radiation induced; sarcoma; secondary malignancies; treatment related morbidity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION INDUCED SARCOMA; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPORADIC SARCOMA; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84856476154     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.559     Document Type: Article

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