© 2004 by Oxford University Press
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Colon Cancer Survival Rates in Different Staging Systems
The recently revised American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) sixth
edition staging system increased the stratification within colon cancer stages
II and III. O'Connell et al.
(p. 1420) used data
from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) to compare
survival rates associated with colon cancer stages defined according to both
the new (sixth edition) and the old (fifth edition) system. They found that
the new AJCC system stratifies survival more distinctly than the old AJCC
system by providing more substages. However, they point out, under the
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