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Cancer of Unknown Primary Origin.
About 3% of all cancer patients suffer from cancer of unknown primary origin. These patients present with metastatic disease for which a primary site cannot be detected at the time of diagnosis. Sophisticated diagnostic techniques and operational procedures have failed to improve the diagnostic efficacy in this group of patients. Consequently, a limited diagnostic procedure with basic laborator...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Oncologist
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1083-7159,1549-490X
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2-3-142