Cancer of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction: Data-driven staging for the seventh edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer Cancer Staging Manuals

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3763-3773

  Rice, Thomas W ^a   Rusch, Valerie W ^b   Ishwaran, Hemant ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer location; Histologic grade; Histopathologic cell type; Random forests analysis; Survival; TNM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; BOOK; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; DATA COLLECTION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MANUALS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77956851247     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25146     Document Type: Article

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