Defining stage III disease in colorectal cancer - Aspects on treatment and evaluation of survival

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 424-427

  Derwinger, Kristoffer ^a   Carlsson, Göran ^a   Ekman, Tor ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Cancer staging; Colorectal cancer; Lymph node ratio; Palliative chemotherapy; Prognosis; Survival

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957357524     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21567     Document Type: Article

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