Current TNM staging of colorectal cancer

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 572-573

  Greene, Frederick L ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34347256106     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(07)70185-7     Document Type: Letter

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