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Open AccessColorectal cancer derived organotypic spheroids maintain essential tissue characteristics but adapt their metabolism in culture
Organotypic tumor spheroids, a 3D in vitro model derived from patient tumor material, preserve tissue heterogeneity and retain structural tissue elements, thus replicating the in vivo tumor more closely than comm...
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Evidence-Based Treatment of Gallstone Disease
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Improved Lymph Node Harvest from Resected Colon Cancer Specimens Did Not Cause Upstaging from TNM Stage II to III
The number of lymph nodes retrieved and examined from a resected colon cancer specimen may be crucial for correct staging. We examined if efforts to increase the lymph node harvest to more than 12 lymph nodes ...
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Open AccessOverall survival after resection for colon cancer in a national cohort study was adversely affected by TNM stage, lymph node ratio, gender, and old age
A national surveillance program of colon cancer treatment was introduced in 2007. We examined prognostic factors for colon cancer operated in 2000 with an aim of improving survival in the new program and a spe...