Colon Cancer Prognosis
Researchers from University of Florence, Department of Human Pathology and Oncology discuss findings in colon cancer prognosis
Published in Gastroenterology Week, October 30th, 2006
Researchers detail in "Incidence and prognostic significance of occult tumor cells in lymph nodes from patients with stage IIA colorectal carcinoma," new data in colon cancer. "Approximately 30% of patients with lymph node (LN)-negative colorectal carcinoma (CRC) die of tumor recurrence, which can be related to the presence of tumor cells in LNs not detected by conventional histopathologic analysis. However, the prognostic significance of occult cancer cells still remains uncertain," investigators in Florence, Italy report.
"We evaluated the incidence and the prognostic significance of occult cancer cells in LNs from 395 consecutive patients with curatively resected...
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