Low Socioeconomic Status Is Associated with Worse Outcomes After Curative Surgery for Colorectal Cancer: Results from a Large, Multicenter Study.

Inge van den BergS BuettnerR R J Coebergh van den BraakK H J UlteeH F LingsmaJ L A van VugtJ N M Ijzermans

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)

This study shows that lower SES is associated with increased risk of postoperative complications, and poor cancer-specific survival in patients undergoing surgery for stage I-III colorectal cancer after correcting for known prognosticators.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
patients undergoing
surgical site infection
papillary thyroid
squamous cell
rectal cancer
prognostic factors
free survival
young adults
lymph node metastasis
childhood cancer