Browsing Medicine by Subject "colon cancer"

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Colorectal cancer in the young, many questions, few answers

Deen, K.I.; Silva, H.; Deen, R.; Chandrasinghe, P.C. (Baishideng Publishing Group, 2016)

At a time where the incidence of colorectal cancer, a disease predominantly of developed nations, is showing a decline in those 50 years of age and older, data from the West is showing a rising incidence of this cancer in ...
Comparison of hazard of death following surgery for colon versus rectal cancer

Ediriweera, E.P.D.S.; Kumarage, S.; Deen, K.I. (Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2016)

INTRODUCTION: Prognosis in cancer is usually assessed by use of Kaplan-Meier survival function estimate curves, which reflect survival, or the proportion of patients that will remain alive after a particular event at a ...
The hazard of death decreases after surgical treatment for colon cancer but not after surgical treatment for rectal cancer

Ediriweera, E.P.D.S.; Deen, K.I. (Sri lanka Medical Association, 2015)

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Prognosis in cancer is usually assessed by survival patterns. In this study we evaluated both survival patterns and hazard of death as indices of prognosis to compare colon and rectal cancer. ...

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