Impact of Total Lymph Node Count on Staging and Survival After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer

Purpose Current guidelines recommend that a minimum of 12 lymph nodes (LNs) be dissected to accurately stage rectal cancer patients. Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (CRT) decreases the number of LNs retrieved at surgery. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of the number of LNs diss...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annals of surgical oncology 2015-12, Vol.22 (Suppl 3), p.580-587
Hauptverfasser:	Hall, Matthew D., Schultheiss, Timothy E., Smith, David D., Fakih, Marwan G., Kim, Joseph, Wong, Jeffrey Y. C., Chen, Yi-Jen
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adenocarcinoma - mortality Adenocarcinoma - pathology Adenocarcinoma - therapy Aged Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - therapeutic use Chemoradiotherapy - mortality Colorectal Cancer Combined Modality Therapy Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Lymph Node Excision Lymph Nodes - pathology Lymph Nodes - surgery Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Neoadjuvant Therapy - mortality Neoplasm Grading Neoplasm Staging Oncology Prognosis Rectal Neoplasms - mortality Rectal Neoplasms - pathology Rectal Neoplasms - therapy Surgery Surgical Oncology Survival Rate
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