Is the lymph node ratio superior to the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) TNM system in prognosis of colon cancer?

BACKGROUND: Decision making for adjuvant chemotherapy in stage III colon cancer is based on the TNM system. It is well known that prognosis worsens with higher pN classification, and several recent studies propose superiority of the lymph node ratio (ln ratio) to the TNM system. Therefore, we compar...

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Autores principales: Schiffmann, Leif, Eiken, Anne Karen, Gock, Michael, Klar, Ernst
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23521843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-79

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23521843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-79

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