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Gynecological Cancers

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Cervical cancer constitutes 6% of all female cancers in the USA. It is responsible for 1.6% of all cancer-related mortality and 15% of all gynecologic cancer mortalities in women [1, 2]. It is the most common gynecological cancer in developing and underdeveloped countries.

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  1. Cuneyt Ebruli (Instructor of Radiation Oncology)

    Present address: Department of Radiation Oncology, Kocaeli State Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Gulhane Military Medical School, Ankara, Etlik, Turkey

    Murat Beyzadeoglu (Professor and Chairman of Radiation Oncology) & Cuneyt Ebruli (Instructor of Radiation Oncology)

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, 06100, Ankara, Turkey

    Gokhan Ozyigit (Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology)

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Beyzadeoglu, M., Ebruli, C., Ozyigit, G. (2010). Gynecological Cancers. In: Basic Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11666-7_9

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