Integrated ratio of metastatic to examined lymph nodes and number of metastatic lymph nodes into the AJCC staging system for colon cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Gao, Peng ^a   Song, Yong xi ^a   Wang, Zhen ning ^a   Xu, Ying ying ^a   Tong, Lin lin ^a   Zhu, Jin liang ^a   Tang, Qing chao ^a   Xu, Hui mian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 84859950925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035021     Document Type: Review

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