pT4 stage II and III colon cancers carry the worst prognosis in a nationwide survival analysis. Shepherd's local peritoneal involvement revisited.

• Published in: International Journal of Cancer
• Main Authors: Snaebjornsson, P, Coupe, V M H, Jonasson, L, Meijer, G A, van Grieken, N C, Jonasson, J G
• Other Authors: Vrije Univ Amsterdam Med Ctr, Dept Pathol, Amsterdam, Netherlands Landspitali Univ Hosp, Dept Pathol, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland Vrije Univ Amsterdam Med Ctr, Dept Epidemiol & Biostat, Amsterdam, Netherlands Univ Iceland, Fac Med, Reykjavik, Iceland Icelandic Canc Soc, Icelandic Canc Registry, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; 80 and over; Colonic Neoplasms; Female; Humans; Iceland; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Peritoneal Neoplasms; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Retrospective Studies; Young Adult; Meier; TNM
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/325044; https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.28676

To access publisher's full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field. The aim of this study is to clarify the prognostic importance of several well-known but still debated pathological variables related to the survival of colon cancer patients. The st...