Trends in incidence and survival of women with invasive vulvar cancer in the United States and Canada: A population-based study

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 314-318

  Akhtar Danesh, Noori ^a   Elit, Laurie ^a   Lytwyn, Alice ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Excess mortality rate; Invasive squamous cell vulvar cancer; Relative survival ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INVASIVE SQUAMOUS CELL VULVAR CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VULVA CANCER;

EXCESS MORTALITY RATE; INVASIVE SQUAMOUS CELL VULVAR CANCER; RELATIVE SURVIVAL RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84905453786     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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