Preoperative serum carcinoembryonic antigen, albumin and age are supplementary to UICC staging systems in predicting survival for colorectal cancer patients undergoing surgical treatment
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- 20 August 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Cancer
- Vol. 9 (1), 288
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-9-288
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine influence of prognostic factors in addition to UICC staging systems, on cancer-specific and overall survival rates for patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) undergoing surgical treatment.Keywords
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