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Rare tumours of the uterine cervix

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In 2008, only in the United States, there were 11,070 estimated new cases of invasive cancer of the uterine cervix. Over the last decades, there has been a decrease in the incidence and mortality in developed countries, whereas cervical cancer remains the second most frequent cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality in developing countries; this discrepancy being largely due to the widespread implementation of cervical cancer prevention programs in the former.

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  1. Hôpital Henri-Mondor, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94000, Créteil Cedex, France

    Yazid Belkacémi MD PhD (Professor Radiation Oncology, Deputy Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) (Professor Radiation Oncology, Deputy Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology)

  2. Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudoir, Rue du Bugnon, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

    René-Olivier Mirimanoff MD (Professeur Radiation Oncology, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) & Mahmut Ozsahin MD PhD (Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology) (Professeur Radiation Oncology, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) &  (Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology)

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Lamallem, H., Toledano, A., Tsoutsou, P.G. (2009). Rare tumours of the uterine cervix. In: Belkacémi, Y., Mirimanoff, RO., Ozsahin, M. (eds) Management of Rare Adult Tumours. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-287-92246-6_34

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