TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinicopathologic factors associated with lymph node retrieval in resectable colon cancer
T2 - A veterans' affairs central cancer registry (VACCR) database analysis
AU - Gonsalves, Wilson I.
AU - Kanuri, Swapna
AU - Tashi, Tsewang
AU - Aldoss, Ibrahim
AU - Sama, Ashwin
AU - Al-Howaidi, Islam
AU - Ganta, Ashwin
AU - Kalaiah, Mudappa
AU - Thota, Ramya
AU - Krishnamurthy, Jairam
AU - Fang, Xiang
AU - Townley, Peter
AU - Ganti, Apar K.
AU - Subbiah, Shanmuga
AU - Silberstein, Peter T.
PY - 2011/11/1
Y1 - 2011/11/1
N2 - Background: A long-term determinant of survival in resectable colon cancer is the involvement of regional lymph nodes. We evaluated the clinicopathologic factors associated with lymph node retrieval. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients with resected stage I-III colon cancer in the Veteran's Affairs Central Cancer Registry between 1995 and 2008. One-way ANOVA compared the differences between various groups. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the factors associated with the harvest of 12 or more lymph nodes for pathologic examination. Results: There were 19,240 patients with resectable colon cancer included in our analysis. Mean number of lymph nodes retrieved increased with later year of diagnosis, higher overall stage, higher T descriptor, age
AB - Background: A long-term determinant of survival in resectable colon cancer is the involvement of regional lymph nodes. We evaluated the clinicopathologic factors associated with lymph node retrieval. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients with resected stage I-III colon cancer in the Veteran's Affairs Central Cancer Registry between 1995 and 2008. One-way ANOVA compared the differences between various groups. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the factors associated with the harvest of 12 or more lymph nodes for pathologic examination. Results: There were 19,240 patients with resectable colon cancer included in our analysis. Mean number of lymph nodes retrieved increased with later year of diagnosis, higher overall stage, higher T descriptor, age
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U2 - 10.1002/jso.21886
DO - 10.1002/jso.21886
M3 - Article
C2 - 21337344
AN - SCOPUS:80053591528
SN - 0022-4790
VL - 104
SP - 667
EP - 671
JO - Journal of Surgical Oncology
JF - Journal of Surgical Oncology
IS - 6
ER -