Lymph node negative colorectal cancers with isolated tumor deposits should be classified and treated as stage III

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3203-3211

  Belt, E J Th ^a   Van Stijn, M F M ^a   Bril, H ^b   De Lange De Klerk, E S M ^a   Meijer, G A ^a   Meijer, S ^a   Stockmann, H B A C ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Kennemer Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATED TUMOR DEPOSIT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 78650979327     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1152-7     Document Type: Article

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