Association versus causation versus quality improvement: Setting benchmarks for lymph node evaluation in colon cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 414-415

  Ricciardi, Rocco ^a   Baxter, Nancy N ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY; COLON TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

BENCHMARKING; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; META-ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34047245981     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djk106     Document Type: Editorial

References (11)

1. Institute Of Medicine Of The National Academics. Performance measurement: Accelerating improvement. Washington (DC): The National Academies Press; 2006.
2. Chang GJ, Rodriguez-Bigas MA, Skibber JM, Moyer VA. Lymph node evaluation and survival after curative resection of colon cancer: systematic review. J Natl Cancer Inst 2007;99:433-41.
3. Coburn NG, Swallow CJ, Kiss A, Law C. Significant regional variation in adequacy of lymph node assessment and survival in gastric cancer. Cancer 2006;107:2143-51.
4. Koppie TM, Vickers AJ, Vora K, Dalbagni G, Bochner BH. Standardization of pelvic lymphadenectomy performed at radical cystectomy: Can we establish a minimum number of lymph nodes that should be removed? Cancer 2006;107:2368-74.
5. Ludwig MS, Goodman M, Miller DL, Johnstone PA. Postoperative survival and the number of lymph nodes sampled during resection of node-negative non-small cell lung cancer. Chest 2005;128:1545-50.
6. Bollschweiler E, Baldus SE, Schroder W, Schneider PM, Holscher AH. Staging of esophageal carcinoma: Length of tumor and number of involved regional lymph nodes. Are these independent prognostic factors? J Surg Oncol 2006;94:355-63.
7. Schwarz RE, Smith DD. Extent of lymph node retrieval and pancreatic cancer survival: Information from a large US population database. Ann Surg Oncol 2006;13:1189-200.
8. Woodward WA, Vinh-Hung V, Ueno NT, Cheng YC, Royce M, Tai P, et al. Prognostic value of nodal ratios in node-positive breast cancer. J Clin Onool 2006;24:2910-6.
9. Swanson RS, Compton CC, Stewart AK, Bland KI. The prognosis of T3N0 colon cancer is dependent on the number of lymph nodes examined. Ann Surg Oncol 2003;10:65-71.
10. Bui L, Rempel E, Reeson D, Simunovic M. Lymph node counts, rates of positive lymph nodes, and patient survival for colon cancer surgery in Ontario, Canada: A population-based study. J Surg Oncol 2006;93: 439-45.
11. Galon J, Costes A, Sanchez-Cabo F, Kirilovsky A, Mlecnik B, Lagorce-Pages C, et al. Type, density, and location of immune cells within human colorectal tumors predict clinical outcome. Science 2006;313:1960-4.