Prolonged postoperative length of stay may be a valuable marker for susceptibility to relapse beyond established risk factors in patients with stage III colon cancer

Prolonged postoperative length of stay may be a valuable marker for susceptibility to relapse beyond established risk factors in patients with stage III colon cancer

Abstract Background Delay from surgery to adjuvant chemotherapy causes impaired survival among patients undergoing radical resection for stage III colon cancer, and the underlying mechanism for this is incompletely clarified. It is established that prolonged postoperative hospital length of stay (LO...

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Main Authors: Frans Emland, Helena Taflin, Göran Carlsson, David Ljungman, Elinor Bexe Lindskog
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-09-01
Series:World Journal of Surgical Oncology
Subjects:
Colonic neoplasm
Postoperative length of stay
Prognostic risk factor
Disease-free survival
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-022-02742-8

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