The Diminishing Importance of Primary Site Identification in Cancer of Unknown Primary: A Canadian Single-Center Experience

The Diminishing Importance of Primary Site Identification in Cancer of Unknown Primary: A Canadian Single-Center Experience

BackgroundCancer of unknown primary (CUP) describes patients with metastatic disease without an identified primary tumor site. Successful diagnosis and treatment of these patients remains difficult. Published guidelines on CUP have highlighted “favorable” subtype groups. We investigated a series of...

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Main Authors: Boaz Wong, Michael M. Vickers, Paul Wheatley-Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
cancer of unknown primary
cancer epidemiology
patient prognosis
cancer diagnostics
favorable subtype
retrospective analysis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2021.634563/full

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