...Athanasios Tampakis; Ekaterini Christina Tampaki; Afroditi Nonni; Michael Kontos; Gerasimos Tsourouflis; Alberto Posabella; Lana Fourie; Martin Bolli; Gregory Kouraklis; Markus von Flüe; Evangelos Felekouras; Nikolaos Nikiteas Background: Disease recurrence in colorectal cancer constitutes a major...

... surgery. Results: The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) status correlated with the pathological stage and disease recurrence after surgery ( p = 0.015 and p < 0.0001, respectively). Thirty-three patients had disease recurrence after gastrectomy (stage II, n = 11; stage III, n = 22). The PNI...

... carcinoma. Mucinous carcinomas were most frequently located in the rectum (61.5%) and in the sigmoid colon (15.3%) and presented with stage C and D disease in 41 and 15% of the cases, respectively. Disease recurrence was more frequently observed in patients with mucinous (51.7%) or signet-ring lesions (100...

... strongly positive for cyclin D 1 was 53.3%, while the 5-year survival rates of patients with cyclin-D 1 -negative and weakly positive tumors were 96.2 and 78.8%, respectively. Moreover, multivariate analysis indicated that cyclin D 1 overexpression is an independent predictor of disease recurrence in our...