Staging and prognosis of colon cancer

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 129-146

  Kehoe, Josh ^a   Khatri, Vijay P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 29444461589     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2005.08.006     Document Type: Review

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