Does delay in diagnosing colorectal cancer in symptomatic patients affect tumor stage and survival? A population-based observational study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Terhaar sive Droste, Jochim S ^a   Oort, Frank A ^a   van der Hulst, René W M ^b   Coupé, Veerle M H ^a   Craanen, Mike E ^a   Meijer, Gerrit A ^a   Morsink, Linde M ^a   Visser, Otto ^c   van Wanrooij, Roy L J ^a   Mulder, Chris J J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Infection and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^c Integraal Kankercentrum Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BLOATING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CECUM; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEFECATION HABIT; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DESCENDING COLON; DUKES CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELAY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TENESMUS; THERAPY DELAY; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTICENTER STUDY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL PREDICTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953954341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-323     Document Type: Article

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