Effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy for elderly patients with lymph node-positive colorectal cancer

BACKGROUND: Several guidelines state that postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) confers survival benefits to patients with lymph node-positive colorectal cancer. However, older patients are usually not administered AC due to the higher risk of side effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate t...

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Autores principales: Tominaga, Tetsuro, Nonaka, Takashi, Sumida, Yorihisa, Hidaka, Shigekazu, Sawai, Terumitsu, Nagayasu, Takeshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27465031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0959-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27465031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0959-5

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