Improved Treatment for Cervical Cancer — Concurrent Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy
| العنوان: | Improved Treatment for Cervical Cancer — Concurrent Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy |
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| المؤلفون: | Gillian M. Thomas |
| المصدر: | New England Journal of Medicine. 340:1198-1200 |
| بيانات النشر: | Massachusetts Medical Society, 1999. |
| سنة النشر: | 1999 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Oncology, Cervical cancer, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Cancer, General Medicine, Disease, medicine.disease, Radiation therapy, Concurrent chemotherapy, Internal medicine, medicine, Combined Modality Therapy, Radiology, business, Survival rate, Cause of death |
| الوصف: | Despite screening programs, approximately 14,000 cases of invasive cervical cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States. In approximately half these cases, locally advanced disease is present at the time of diagnosis. In developing countries, the disease is usually advanced by the time of diagnosis, the prevalence is much higher, and cervical cancer is the principal cause of death due to cancer in women. Pelvic radiation has been the standard, definitive therapy for advanced disease. With this treatment, the overall five-year survival rate is approximately 65 percent, but it ranges from 15 to 80 percent, depending on the extent of . . . |
| تدمد: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::9f5382296547f7b5baa851c463f16b69 https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199904153401509 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........9f5382296547f7b5baa851c463f16b69 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15334406 00284793 |
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