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Neoplasms, Unknown Primary

"Neoplasms, Unknown Primary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Metastases in which the tissue of origin is unknown.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Neoplasms, Unknown Primary" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Neoplasms, Unknown Primary" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 59 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2014
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.