… Based on current recommendations of postsurgical adjuvant therapy for patients with
node-positive rectal cancer, 26 in the present analysis, the advantages of adjuvant chemotherapy …

… risk for lymph node metastases, … node metastases, and to construct a risk stratification index
relevant for pre-operative planning and clinical decision-making in T1 and T2 rectal cancers. …

… this study in an attempt to identify which histologic and morphologic features of rectal cancers
predict nodal metastases and, thereby, potentially influence further treatment following LE. …

… To ascertain the risk of lymph node metastasis (LNM) from early rectal cancer, the authors
retrospectively analyzed 154 patients with pT1 or pT2 rectal cancer treated by radical resection…

… metastatic spread in colon and rectal cancers. 49,096 patients with colorectal cancer were
identified from the nationwide Swedish Cancer … Although nodal metastases are important for …

… in rectal cancer for selected patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the clinicopathologic
factors determining lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with T1–2 rectal cancer. …

… node metastasis, even for low rectal cancer. Other factors predicting an increased risk of lateral
node metastasis … presence of mesenteric lymph node metastasis. The incidence of lateral …

… survival after surgery for rectal cancer is both distant metastases and lymph node (LN) …
metastasis, 62 had positive nodes, thus leaving in total 288 patients with lymph node metastases …

… We examined resected specimens from 40 cases of advanced rectal cancer to determine
the extent of microtubular cancer nests and undifferentiated cancer cells (budding). We …

… used to predict lymph node metastases on MRI, our … nodes ≤5 mm on MRI were involved
with metastatic disease, suggesting that there is no size limit below which nodal metastasis …