Incidence and Prognostic Implications of Isolated Tumor Cells in Lymph Nodes from Patients with Dukes B Colorectal Carcinoma
β Scribed by Hong-Jo Choi; Yun-Young Choi; Sook-Hee Hong
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 861 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-3706
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The authors thank Beate Schaufler and Theresia Trull for technical assistance, Alexander Staib and Johannes Schumacher for collecting tissues of lung cancer patients, and Professor Roger Pain and Chris McCollough for correcting the article.
## BACKGROUND. Lymph node status is pivotal to the staging of colorectal carcinoma. The diagnosis of a lymph node negative tumor should imply a good prognosis; however, the outcomes for Dukes' B (TNM Stage II) patients remain variable, possibly in part due to understaging. The aim of this study w