Characteristics of Differently Located Colorectal Cancers Support Proximal and Distal Classification: A Population-Based Study of 57,847 Patients.

Jiao YangXiang Lin DuShu Ting LiBi Yuan WangYin Ying WuZhe Ling ChenMeng LvYan Wei ShenXin WangDan Feng DongDan LiFan WangEn Xiao LiMin YiJin Yang

Published in: PloS one (2016)

RCC differed from both LCC and ReC in several clinicopathologic characteristics and in DSS. It seems reasonable to group colorectal cancer into right-sided (i.e., proximal) and left-sided (i.e., distal) ones.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
minimally invasive
machine learning
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors