... predictors of survival in patients with stage IV rectal cancer who have undergone curative resection. Methods: In this retrospective study, data on 73 patients who had undergone curative resection of stage IV rectal cancer were reviewed. Associations between various clinicopathological factors and survival...

...) and recurrence rates were compared to 1,157 surgical patients who underwent surgery for non-ruptured HCC. The surgical outcomes were also compared using a propensity score matching method. Results: Surgery was associated with a better OS. Curative resection was the only independent prognostic factor in surgical...

... foci into consideration when dealing with node-positive patients who had received curative resection for gastric cancer. The dissected lymph nodes were fixed in 10% formalin, bisected along the maximum plane, embedded in paraffin, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. In terms of histological...

.... Gall bladder cancer Abdominal lump Jaundice Curative resection Most clinicians consider gall bladder cancer (GBC) to be an aggressive and incurable disease and regard patients with this condition to be fit only for palliative care. The reason for such a nihilistic attitude stems from...

... was to clarify the influence of timing of relapse after curative resection for colorectal cancer on prognosis. Methods: We enrolled 5,230 consecutive patients who underwent curative resection for colorectal cancer at 14 hospitals from 1991 to 1996. All patients were intensively followed up. Time to relapse (TR...

.... Caroli’s syndrome Unilobar Caroli’s syndrome Curative resection 12 10 1995 1 02 1996 6 11 2008 Digestive Surgery Case Report DigSurg 1997;14:123-125 Received: October 12, 1995 Accepted: February 1,1996 Tahar Benhidjeba Birgit Rudolph b Joachim M. Müllera Department of Surgery...

...Nobuaki Kaibara; Hideaki Nishidoi; Osamu Kimura; Masato Makino; Kenichi Sumi; Shigemasa Koga Patients with gastric cancer treated by curative resection had an overall 5-year survival rate of 73.4%. Of these patients, those with early gastric cancer had a 5-year survival rate of 91.6%, while...

...). Conclusion: According to our results, curative resection itself, rather than tumor location, was the determining factor in improving 5-year survival. 26 04 2006 28 08 2006 2 2 2007 © 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel 2007 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved...

... radical Whipple operation in 1978 to improve surgical curability. Systemic dissection of extended lymph nodes and plexuses and en bloc resection of the portal vein was the basic concept. The resection rate for cancer of the pancreatic head has improved from 7–20 to 50%. The curative resection rate has...