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Competing-Risk Nomogram for Predicting Cancer-Specific Survival in Multiple Primary Colorectal Cancer Patients after Surgery
Published on: September 27, 2024
Colorectal cancer
Philip B Paty1, Julio Garcia-Aguilar1
1Colorectal Surgery Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
Abstract:
Although surgery is the established standard and mainstay for treatment of colorectal cancer, advances in technology and clinical trials over the past 50 years have dramatically expanded and improved the detection, staging, treatment, and understanding of this disease. This review highlights contributions by surgeons, oncologists, gastroenterologists, engineers, and scientists to increase postsurgical recurrence-free survival, reduce the time and toxicity of treatment, and improve the quality of life for patients over the past half-century.
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