Risk of recurrence in patients with colon cancer stage II and III: A systematic review and meta-analysis of recent literature

Böckelman, Camilla; Elisabeth Engelmann, Bodil; Kaprio, Tuomas; Frøstrup Hansen, Torben; Glimelius, Bengt

doi:10.3109/0284186x.2014.975839

Public

Risk of recurrence in patients with colon cancer stage II and III: A systematic review and meta-analysis of recent literature

Published in Acta Oncologica • Nov 28, 2014

Authors:

Camilla Böckelman

Bodil Elisabeth Engelmann

Tuomas Kaprio

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Adjuvant chemotherapy is established routine therapy for colon cancer (CC) patients with radically resected stage III and 'high-risk' stage II disease. The decision on recommending adjuvant chemotherapy, however, is based on data from older patient cohorts not reflecting improvements in ...

Subject

Medicine

Stage (stratigraphy)

Meta-analysis

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!