Adenocarcinoma of the Uterine Cervix: Why Is it Different?

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Fujiwara, Keiichi ^a   Monk, Bradley ^b   Devouassoux Shisheboran, Mojgan ^c  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinomas; Cervical cancer of the uterus; Clinicopathological and molecular difference; Prognosis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; PACLITAXEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 18; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX ADENOCARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; HYSTERECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84911934823     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: 15346269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-014-0416-y     Document Type: Review

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