The Integration of Macroscopic Tumor Invasion of Adjacent Organs into TNM Staging System for Colorectal Cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Liang, Ji wang ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Wang, Zhen ning ^a   Song, Yong xi ^a   Xu, Ying ying ^a   Wang, Mei xian ^a   Dong, Yu lan ^a   Xu, Hui mian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871596451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052269     Document Type: Review

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