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- Title
Power and limits of modern cancer diagnostics: cancer of unknown primary.
- Authors
Hemminki, K; Liu, H; Heminki, A; Sundquist, J
- Abstract
Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is diagnosed at a metastatic stage but no diagnostic effort is spared to find the primary cancers because these will guide the treatment. Consequently, the diagnostic work-up for CUP is more comprehensive than for any other cancer, resulting in detection of second cancers unrelated to CUP. We want to use the detection rate of second cancers as a measure of efficacy of the diagnostic modalities in finding tumors, assuming that the detection rates have increased with modern technologies.
- Publication
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology, 2012, Vol 23, Issue 3, p760
- ISSN
1569-8041
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/annonc/mdr369