Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data

• Seventy- 5% of vulvar cancer cases present with advance disease. • Definitive radiotherapy/chemoradiation is the main stay of treatment. • One third of patients default treatment. • Five year survival following radiotherapy was 36.7%.

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Autores principales: Dadzie, Mary Ann, Aidoo, Charles A., Vanderpuye, Verna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Virtual Special Section on Gynecologic Cancers in Resource-constrained Countries; Edited by Linus Chuang
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382029/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.03.015
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spelling pubmed-53820292017-04-13 Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data Dadzie, Mary Ann Aidoo, Charles A. Vanderpuye, Verna Gynecol Oncol Rep Virtual Special Section on Gynecologic Cancers in Resource-constrained Countries; Edited by Linus Chuang • Seventy- 5% of vulvar cancer cases present with advance disease. • Definitive radiotherapy/chemoradiation is the main stay of treatment. • One third of patients default treatment. • Five year survival following radiotherapy was 36.7%. Elsevier 2017-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5382029/ /pubmed/28409179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.03.015 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Virtual Special Section on Gynecologic Cancers in Resource-constrained Countries; Edited by Linus Chuang
Dadzie, Mary Ann
Aidoo, Charles A.
Vanderpuye, Verna
Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data
title Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data
title_full Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data
title_fullStr Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data
title_full_unstemmed Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data
title_short Vulva cancer in Ghana – Review of a hospital based data
title_sort vulva cancer in ghana – review of a hospital based data
topic Virtual Special Section on Gynecologic Cancers in Resource-constrained Countries; Edited by Linus Chuang
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382029/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.03.015
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