The validity of the Royal College of Pathologists' colorectal cancer minimum dataset within a population

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1393-1398

  Maughan, N J ^a   Morris, E ^a,b   Forman, D ^b,c   Quirke, P ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Northern and Yorkshire Clinical Trials and Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasms; Histopathology; Minimum dataset; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA BASE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUSCLE; INTESTINE RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULAR TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36148980834     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604036     Document Type: Article

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