Is there a difference in survival between right- versus left-sided colon cancers?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2388-2394

  Meguid, Robert A ^a   Slidell, Mark B ^b   Wolfgang, Christopher L ^a   Chang, David C ^a   Ahuja, Nita ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CRB   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Left; Right; Survival

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT SIDED COLON CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RIGHT SIDED COLON CANCER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50049094754     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0015-y     Document Type: Article

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