Validation of the seventh edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor-node-metastasis (AJCC TNM) staging in patients with stage II and stage III colorectal carcinoma: Analysis of 2511 cases from a medical centre in Korea

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kim, K H ^a   Yang, S S ^a   Yoon, Y S ^a   Lim, S B ^a   Yu, C S ^a   Kim, J C ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

AJCC stage; Colorectal carcinoma; Prognosis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960471479     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2011.02625.x     Document Type: Article

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