The Journal of Bucharest College of Physicians and the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences

Matei Bara

Matei Bara

Metachronous Cancers

According to GLOBOCAN, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide touching woman, with approximately around 500000 new cases and 266000 deaths in 2012; in Romania, cervical cancer is the second malignancy diagnosed in women. Cervical cancer is responsible for 7.5% from the whole female cancer deaths and 87% of these cases are encountered in the less developed regions of the world. The more advanced is the stage of cervical cancer, the worse the prognosis is and the treatment in these cases is mainly palliative with an average survival period of only 7 years as observed in recurrent and/or metastatic cancer [...]

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