Analysis of Prognostic Factors from 9387 Merkel Cell Carcinoma Cases Forms the Basis for the New 8th Edition AJCC Staging System

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 3564-3571

  Harms, Kelly L ^a   Healy, Mark A ^a,b   Nghiem, Paul ^c,d,e   Sober, Arthur J ^f   Johnson, Timothy M ^a   Bichakjian, Christopher K ^a   Wong, Sandra L ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d USA   (United States)

^e SEATTLE CANCER CARE ALLIANCE   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN-TRANSIT METASTASIS; LOCAL METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SECONDARY; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84969753202     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-016-5266-4     Document Type: Article

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