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Tumor location and patient characteristics of colon and rectal adenocarcinomas in relation to survival and TNM classes

BACKGROUND: Old age at diagnosis is associated with poor survival in colorectal cancer (CRC) for unknown reasons. Recent data show that colonoscopy is efficient in preventing left-sided cancers only. We examine the association of Tumor Node Metastasis (TNM) classes with diagnostic age and patient ch...

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Autores principales: Hemminki, Kari, Santi, Irene, Weires, Marianne, Thomsen, Hauke, Sundquist, Jan, Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21176147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-10-688