Faculty Articles
Investigations of factors influencing the prognosis of colon cancer.
Publication Title
American journal of surgery
Publisher
Elsevier Inc.
ISSN
0002-9610
Publication Date
6-1-1987
Keywords
Colonic Neoplasms, Female, Humans, Male, Neoplasm Staging, New Jersey, Prognosis, Retrospective Studies, Risk
Abstract
Six hundred sixty patients from Downstate and Hackensack Medical Centers were restaged and reviewed to establish correlations with survival using Cox's proportional hazards model. Age, sex, tumor size, and total nodes examined in patients with involved nodes did not correlate with survival. Tumor depth, number of involved nodes, and total nodes examined in patients with uninvolved nodes did correlate with survival. Patients with metastatic invasion into an adjacent organ with uninvolved nodes had an excellent 5 year survival rate compared with patients who had full-thickness invasion into the serosa with uninvolved nodes. These observations need to be confirmed. The relationship of some of these factors to currently used staging systems has also been discussed.
Volume
153
Issue
6
First Page
541
Last Page
544
Disciplines
Medical Specialties | Medicine and Health Sciences | Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy
NSUWorks Citation
Gardner, Bernard; Feldman, Joseph; Spivak, Yemelyan; Panetta, Thomas; Fleischer, J; Kasamblides, Efthimios; and Higgins, Elizabeth, "Investigations of factors influencing the prognosis of colon cancer." (1987). Faculty Articles. 1487.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_com_faculty_articles/1487
