Examining the characteristics of unstaged colon and rectal cancer cases

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-258

  Worthington, Julie L ^a   Koroukian, Siran M ^a   Cooper, Gregory S ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Antineoplastic protocols; Colonic neoplasms; Epidemiology; Neoplasm staging; Rectal neoplasms; Registries; Regression analysis; SEER program; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 52949110164     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: 15251500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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