Evaluation of prognostic factors and the role of chemotherapy in unfavorable carcinoma of unknown primary site: a 10-year cohort study

BACKGROUND: Carcinoma of unknown primary site (CUP) has a poor prognosis and the prognostic factors in these patients are not well established. Furthermore, there are no selection criteria for patients who should benefit from chemotherapy. METHODS: The medical records of 179 CUP patients who were tr...

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Main Authors: Chen, Kuo-Wei, Liu, Chia-Jen, Lu, Hsueh-Ju, Tzeng, Cheng-Hwai, Liu, Jin-Hwang, Chiou, Tzeon-Jye, Yen, Chueh-Chuan, Wang, Wei-Shu, Chao , Ta-Chung, Teng, Hao-Wei, Chen, Ming-Huang, Liu, Chun-Yu, Chang, Peter MH, Yang, Muh-Hwa
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331815/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22280526
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-70
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