Detailed stratification of TNM stage III rectal cancer based on the presence/absence of extracapsular invasion of the metastatic lymph nodes

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 726-732

  Komori, Koji ^a   Kanemitsu, Yukihide ^a   Kimura, Kenya ^a   Sano, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ito, Seiji ^a   Abe, Tetsuya ^a   Senda, Yoshiki ^a   Shimizu, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracapsular invasion; Rectal cancer; Stage III

Indexed keywords

CARMOFUR; DOXIFLURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; TEGAFUR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTRACAPSULAR CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR INVASION;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879095248     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e318286c518     Document Type: Article

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