Clinical decision-making and implementation challenges with the AJCC VII staging system for colorectal carcinoma

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-222

  Hari, Danielle M ^a   Bilchik, Anton J ^b,c  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c California Oncology Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; TUMOR MARKER;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINEURIUM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR REGRESSION; UNITED STATES;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84856250499     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.22086     Document Type: Editorial

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