Prognostic Value of Pre-treatment Scc-ag Level in Patients with Cervical Cancer
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Copyright © 2011. Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Cervical carcinoma is the third most common cancer in women, and the seventh overall, with an estimated 530,000 new cases in 2008 [1] and the one of the most lethal female malignancies in developing countries [2]. Cervical carcinoma can be categorized into subtypes according to histological classification, of which invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common, accounting for about 80% of invasive cancer in the cervix [3]. And other subtypes including adenocarcinoma of uterine cervix are considered as distinct disease entities against SCC from epidemiology to clinical manifestations [4]. Squamous cell carcinoma-related antigen (SCC-Ag), which also known as TA-4 (tumor antigen), may be the tumor marker of ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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تاریخ انتشار 2011