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The scope of the problem of primary tumor control
Author(s) -
Suit Herman D.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19880601)61:11<2141::aid-cncr2820611102>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - medicine , scope (computer science) , primary (astronomy) , modalities , primary treatment , treatment modality , control (management) , intensive care medicine , primary cancer , clinical endpoint , point (geometry) , medical physics , cancer , risk analysis (engineering) , surgery , pathology , clinical trial , artificial intelligence , computer science , social science , physics , astronomy , sociology , programming language , geometry , mathematics
Abstract The purposes of this article are (1) to point out several aspects of the magnitude and importance of the overall cancer problem, (2) to emphasize that the treatment of the primary lesion is far from being uniformly successful, and (3) to consider one component of a strategy to help assure an effective level of support for research at the laboratory and clinical level to promote improvement in the efficacy of primary treatment modalities.