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Surgical staging and cervical cancer
Author(s) -
Moore David H.
Publication year - 2008
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/cncr.23386
Subject(s) - medicine , cervical cancer , general surgery , cancer , randomized controlled trial , incidence (geometry) , clinical trial , disease , neoplasm staging , surgery , physics , optics
The study reported by Gold and colleagues in this issue of Cancer emerges as the first comparative study to clearly suggest a benefit of surgical staging over clinical staging. The importance of confirming their findings through a prospective, randomized trial may be offset by declining disease incidence and other scientific priorities.

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