Close collaboration between surgeon and pathologist is essential for accurate staging of early colon cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 245, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 864-866

  Bilchik, Anton J ^a,c   Compton, Carolyn ^b  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MICROMETASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURGEON; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 34249279866     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31805d07e3     Document Type: Editorial

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