Right colon cancer: Left behind

Gervaz, Pascal; Usel, Massimo; Rapiti Aylward, Elisabetta; Chappuis, Pierre; Neyroud, Isabelle; Bouchardy Magnin, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.ejso.2016.04.002

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Right colon cancer: Left behind

ContributorsGervaz, Pascal; Usel, Massimo; Rapiti Aylward, Elisabetta; Chappuis, Pierre; Neyroud, Isabelle; Bouchardy Magnin, Christine

Published inEuropean journal of surgical oncology, vol. 42, no. 9, p. 1343-1349

Publication date2016

Abstract

Prognosis of colon cancer (CC) has steadily improved during the past three decades. This trend, however, may vary according to proximal (right) or distal (left) tumor location. We studied if improvement in survival was greater for left than for right CC.

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GERVAZ, Pascal et al. Right colon cancer: Left behind. In: European journal of surgical oncology, 2016, vol. 42, n° 9, p. 1343–1349. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2016.04.002

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PID : unige:89123
DOI : 10.1016/j.ejso.2016.04.002
PMID : 27178778

Journal ISSN0748-7983

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Right colon cancer: Left behind

Prognosis of colon cancer (CC) has steadily improved during the past three decades. This trend, however, may vary according to proximal (right) or distal (left) tumor location. We studied if improvement in survival was greater for left than for right CC.

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