Open AccessSmaller tumor size is associated with poor survival in T4b colon cancer
Author(s) -
Ben Huang,
Yang Feng,
Shaobo Mo,
San Jun Cai,
Li Huang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v22.i29.6726
Subject(s) - colorectal cancer , medicine , multivariate analysis , cancer , subgroup analysis , oncology , gastroenterology , metastasis , meta analysis
To hypothesize that in patients with colon cancer showing heavy intestinal wall invasion without distant metastasis (T4bN0-2M0), small tumor size would correlate with more aggressive tumor behaviors and therefore poorer cancer-specific survival (CSS).