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Comparison of survival of patients with metastases from known versus unknown primaries: survival in metastatic cancer

BACKGROUND: Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is considered an aggressive metastatic disease but whether the prognosis differs from metastatic cancers of known primary site is not known. Such data may give insight into the biology of CUP and the metastatic process in general. METHODS: 6,745 cance...

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Autores principales: Riihimäki, Matias, Thomsen, Hauke, Hemminki, Akseli, Sundquist, Kristina, Hemminki, Kari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23356713
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-36