Adjuvant chemotherapy improves prognosis of resectable stage IV colorectal cancer: a comparative study using inverse probability of treatment weighting

Adjuvant chemotherapy improves prognosis of resectable stage IV colorectal cancer: a comparative study using inverse probability of treatment weighting

Background: Adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) is known to be beneficial for stage III colorectal cancer (CRC). In contrast, only a few studies have reported the survival benefits of AC for stage IV CRC after curative surgery. Methods: We identified 155 CRC patients with various organ metastases who underwe...

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Main Authors: Hiroaki Nozawa, Hirotoshi Takiyama, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Kazushige Kawai, Keisuke Hata, Toshiaki Tanaka, Takeshi Nishikawa, Kazuhito Sasaki, Manabu Kaneko, Koji Murono, Shigenobu Emoto, Hirofumi Sonoda, Jun Nakajima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-04-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1758835919838960

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1758835919838960

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