Safety and Toxicity Analysis of Oxaliplatin Combined With Fluorouracil or as a Single Agent in Patients With Previously Treated Advanced Colorectal Cancer Purpose: To determine the relationship, in ...

Efficiency of Colorectal Cancer Care Among Veterans: Analysis of Treatment Wait Times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers We used the 1988 to 2009 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program ...

Examining more carefully the lymph nodes to which colorectal cancer is most likely to have spread may improve the accuracy of colon cancer staging and spare some patients the cost and toxicity of ...

Lymph node evaluations for colon cancer increased markedly from 1988-2008, according to a Journal of American Medical Association report. Evaluations at a level of 12 lymph nodes or more rose from ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery was found to be more effective in harvesting lymph nodes compared with conventional surgery with similar outcomes. Surgery is the most prevalent treatment for colon ...

Colorectal lymphoma is a form of colon cancer that begins in the lymph nodes. People with lymphoma in their colon typically require some combination of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. According ...

The new Sassun-Mayo staging system, which integrates tumor deposit and lymph node counts, improves prognostic accuracy for patients with colon cancer compared with the standard American Joint ...

Caecal cancer and ascending colon cancer had slower rates of metastasis to main nodes compared with transverse colon cancer. Routine prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy for the superior mesenteric ...