Colon cancer survival rates with the new American Joint Committee on Cancer sixth edition staging

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 96, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 1420-1425

  O'Connell, Jessica B ^a,b   Maggard, Melinda A ^a,b   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CECUM; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARGE INTESTINE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SIGMOID; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNITED STATES; BOOK; CANCER REGISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COLON TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PUBLISHING;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PUBLISHING; REFERENCE BOOKS, MEDICAL; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6944230093     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djh275     Document Type: Article

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