Related Experiment Video For Health equity
Updated: Jun 8, 2025

Competing-Risk Nomogram for Predicting Cancer-Specific Survival in Multiple Primary Colorectal Cancer Patients after Surgery
Published on: September 27, 2024
Morbidity And Mortality: Delays In My Patient's Cancer Care
1Arifeen S. Rahman (arifeenr@stanford.edu) is a resident physician in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, in Stanford, California. The author is solely responsible for the accuracy of the information presented in this article. Any views or opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, and no endorsement of these views or opinions by the author's institutions is expressed or implied. A pseudonym, Ms. A, is used for the patient's name to protect their privacy. To access the authors' disclosures, click on the Details tab of the article online.
Abstract:
A clinician analyzes what caused months-long delays in the care of a patient diagnosed with cancer.
Related Concept Videos
Cancer Survival Analysis
Tumor Progression
Colon cancer is one of the best-documented examples of tumor progression. Early mutation in the APC gene in colon cells causes a small growth on the colon wall called a polyp. With time, this polyp grows into a benign, pre-cancerous tumor. Further...
Cancer Therapies
However, cancer treatments can pose several challenges, as therapies used to kill cancer cells are generally also toxic to normal cells. Moreover, cancer cells mutate rapidly and can develop resistance to chemical agents or radiation therapy. Besides, all types of cancer cells may not respond to the same therapy. Some cancer cells respond to one...
Methods of Documentation VI: Case Management Model
For example, a patient with a chronic...
Adaptive Mechanisms in Cancer Cells
Some of the advantages that cancer cells have on normal cells include - enhanced ability to divide without terminally differentiating, induce new blood vessel formation,...
Targeted Cancer Therapies
There are several types of targeted therapies against...

