An analysis of reported independent prognostic factors for survival in squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva: Is tumor size significance being underrated?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 643-648

  Aragona, Alejandro M ^a   Cuneo, Nicasio A ^a   Soderini, Alejandro H ^a   Alcoba, Elsa B ^a  

^a Department of Pathology Oncology Hospital of Buenos Aires Marie Curie   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Prognostic factors; Survival; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVA SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL; VULVAR CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84896392484     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.12.022     Document Type: Article

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