Alberts-1989

Methods Retrospective case series
Participants and Country 100 patients with CUP
Interventions 80 patients received mitomycin-C chemotherapy
Outcomes Overall survival
Prognostic factors (univariate) PS, presentation, sex, histology, age, number of sites of metastases
Prognostic factors (multivariate) PS, sex, lymph node metastases, liver metastases
Notes

From: Guideline chapter 3, Factors Influencing Management

Cover of Diagnosis and Management of Metastatic Malignant Disease of Unknown Primary Origin
Diagnosis and Management of Metastatic Malignant Disease of Unknown Primary Origin.
NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 104.
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