Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 3 , Pages 358-365 , March 2010

Staging error does not explain the relationship between the number of lymph nodes in a colon cancer specimen and survival

  • Jesse Moore, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
    • ,
  • Neil Hyman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Neil Hyman, MD, Department of Surgery, Fletcher 464, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05401.
    • ,
  • Peter Callas, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
    • ,
  • Benjamin Littenberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • General Internal Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT

,Accepted 2 October 2009.

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 Supported in part by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (K30 RR22260 and K24 DK68380).

PII: S0039-6060(09)00613-8

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.003

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