Nodal status after preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in locally advanced rectal cancer: Prognostic evaluation of number of resected lymph nodes (LNs), metastatic resected LNs, and LN ratio in the National Cancer Institute of Brazil.

F. M. Vieira,Rodrigo Otavio Araujo,Ana Paula Victorino,Maria de Lourdes Oliveira,Carlos Gil Ferreira

Nodal status after preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in locally advanced rectal cancer: Prognostic evaluation of number of resected lymph nodes (LNs), metastatic resected LNs, and LN ratio in the National Cancer Institute of Brazil.

2017

F. M. Vieira
Rodrigo Otavio Araujo
Ana Paula Victorino
Maria de Lourdes Oliveira
Carlos Gil Ferreira

e14568 Background: For accurate colon cancer staging, 12 or more LNs must be resected. However, in rectal cancer, preoperative CRT can decrease the number of evaluable LNs, and the cutoff for a min...

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Cancer
Radiology
NODAL
Lymph
Pathology
Chemoradiotherapy
Colorectal cancer
Colon cancer staging
Medicine
nodal status
preoperative chemoradiotherapy
locally advanced

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