Among them, 45 cases involved the colon as the tumor site, while 34 cases were associated with the sigmoid colon. The mean tumor diameter was 4.50 ± 0.2 cm, ranging from 1 to 10 cm. Serosa involvement was absent in 13 cases, and 27 cases exhibited lymph node metastases. Tumor ...
During the RPA process of this study, a set of variables had been evaluated as prognostic factors, including: age (split at 50, 60, 70 years), gender (male vs. female), comorbidity (Deyo's modified version of the Charlson comorbidity index - CCI) [6], tumor location (colon, sigmoid,...