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Cancer
; 55(6): 1284-90, 1985 Mar 15.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3971297
ABSTRACT
Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions. Patients were monitored with carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) level determinations and clinical examinations. One hundred thirty patients had recurrences, and 75 were reoperated on, with 43 reoperations CEA-directed and 32 clinically directed. Two of 75 died within 1 month after the second operation. Twenty-two second-look patients remain free of disease 5 years after their second operation. The highest resectability of recurrent cancer occurred in patients with a CEA level below 11 ng/ml in whom the CEA level was determined at intervals of 1 to 2 months.
Subject(s)
Adenocarcinoma/immunology , Carcinoembryonic Antigen/analysis , Colonic Neoplasms/immunology , Rectal Neoplasms/immunology , Adenocarcinoma/secondary , Adenocarcinoma/surgery , Colonic Neoplasms/surgery , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/immunology , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/surgery , Neoplasm Staging , Prognosis , Rectal Neoplasms/surgery , Reoperation
2.
J Okla State Med Assoc
; 65(6): 211-3, 1972 Jun.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-5033429
3.
J Okla State Med Assoc
; 63(8): 365-8, 1970 Aug.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-5515623