Extrapulmonary small cell cancer

Extrapulmonary small cell cancer is rare, but it occurs in a wide variety of sites, where it has a behaviour quite different from the tumours normally found at those sites. Prognosis is generally poor, but combined modality treatment with combination chemotherapy can often achieve useful palliation...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)) 1995, Vol.7 (6), p.377-381
Hauptverfasser:	Vrouvas, J., Ash, D.V.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Carcinoma, Small Cell - pathology Extrapulmonary small cell cancer Female Gastrointestinal Neoplasms - pathology Genital Neoplasms, Female - pathology Head and Neck Neoplasms - pathology Humans Male Medical sciences Multiple tumors. Solid tumors. Tumors in childhood (general aspects) Tumors Urogenital Neoplasms - pathology
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Zusammenfassung:	Extrapulmonary small cell cancer is rare, but it occurs in a wide variety of sites, where it has a behaviour quite different from the tumours normally found at those sites. Prognosis is generally poor, but combined modality treatment with combination chemotherapy can often achieve useful palliation and, occasionally, long term remission and cure.
ISSN:	0936-6555 1433-2981
DOI:	10.1016/S0936-6555(05)80009-3