Staging error does not explain the relationship between the number of lymph nodes in a colon cancer specimen and survival

Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 358-365

  Moore, Jesse ^a   Hyman, Neil ^a   Callas, Peter ^a   Littenberg, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 76749134115     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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