A nationwide Danish cohort study challenging the categorisation into right-sided and left-sided colon cancer

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Jess, Per ^a,b   Hansen, Iben Onsberg ^b   Gamborg, Michael ^c   Jess, Tine ^d  

^a ROSKILDE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CECUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLON FLEXURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DENMARK; DESCENDING COLON; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEFT SIDED COLON CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT SIDED COLON CANCER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SIGMOID; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLENIC FLEXURE CANCER; TRANSVERSE COLON;

EID: 84878454797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002608     Document Type: Article

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