Reasons physicians do not recommend and patients refuse adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer: a population based chart review

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy has been the standard of care for the treatment of stage III colon cancer since the early 1990’s. Despite this, large proportions of patients do not receive adjuvant chemotherapy. We aimed to...

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Main Authors: El Shayeb Mohamed, Scarfe Andrew, Yasui Yutaka, Winget Marcy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-06-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/269