Lymph node counts, rates of positive lymph nodes, and patient survival for colon cancer surgery in Ontario, Canada: A population-based study

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 439-445

  Bui, Luke ^a   Rempel, Eddy ^a   Reeson, Dana ^a   Simunovic, Marko ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Outcomes; Pathology; Surgery; Understaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; RISK; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646850390     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20499     Document Type: Article

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