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Salvage chemotherapy in recurrent or refractory squamous cell cancer of the uterine cervix.
Semin Oncol
August 1994
Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.
Squamous cell cancer of the cervix is a relatively drug-resistant tumor. Therefore, chemotherapy is predominantly reserved for cervical cancer patients with recurrent or refractory disease following surgery and/or radiation therapy or for patients who present with far advanced, incurable disease. Objective responses to salvage chemotherapy are generally short lived (4 to 6 months) with few patients surviving more than 1 year.
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