An elevated C-reactive protein concentration, prior to surgery, predicts poor cancer-specific survival in patients undergoing resection for gastro-oesophageal cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1568-1571

  Crumley, A B C ^a   McMillan, D C ^a   McKernan, M ^a   Going, J J ^a   Shearer, C J ^a   Stuart, R C ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Gastro oesophageal cancer; Resection; Survival; TNM stage

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745248424     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603150     Document Type: Article

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