Authors: Niamh M Hogan Desmond C Winter
Publish Date: 2012/12/14
Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 878-882
Abstract
To date associations between the number of lymph nodes evaluated staging and survival have been examined in the context of large populationbased studies conducted by a small number of investigators Therefore although highquality data are available perspective is lackingThe nodal positivity rate for colorectal cancer consistently approximates 40 across a wide range of studies internationally a phenomenon that has not previously been recognized in the literature We review the evidence and introduce the concept of a nodal positivity constant
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