Background Printed educational materials are widely used dissemination strategies to
improve the quality of healthcare professionals' practice and patient health outcomes …

Tumor stage remains the most important determinant of prognosis in colorectal cancer and
is the basis of all authoritative patient management guidelines. The pathologic assessment …

Background: Adequate lymph node evaluation is required for proper staging of colorectal
cancer, and the number of lymph nodes examined is associated with survival. According to …

BACKGROUND Lymph node (LN) status is a major determinant of prognosis and treatment
of gastric adenocarcinoma. The 1997 American Joint Commission on Cancer/Union …

Background: Adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with stage III (node-positive) colorectal
cancer (CRC) reduces mortality by one third. Retrieval of an inadequate number of lymph …

Purpose Nodal yields from resected colorectal cancers vary greatly. This study sought to
determine what patient, tumor, and management factors influence the number of nodes …

Objective: To identify by routine pathology which Dukes B colorectal cancer patients may
benefit from chemotherapy. Method: Retrospective study of the five year survival of …

Background The benefit of thoracic lymphadenectomy in the treatment of resectable non-
small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) continues to be debated. We hypothesized that the number …

Objective To determine the association between gastric cancer surgery case-volume and
Textbook Outcome, a new composite quality measurement. Background Textbook Outcome …

There has been considerable discussion in the literature regarding the importance and
validity of lymph node retrieval and lymph node count for patients with colon cancer. In this …