Pattern of distant metastases in colorectal cancer: a SEER based study

Abstract

// <![CDATA[ $('.header-date').hide();$('#titleAuthors').hide();$('#abstractHeader').hide(); // ]]> Miaozhen Qiu1,2,*, Jianming Hu3,*, Dajun Yang4,*, David Peter Cosgrove2 and Ruihua Xu1 1 Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China 2 Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 Department of Medical Imaging Department, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China 4 Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China * These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Ruihua Xu, email: // <![CDATA[ mail("xurh","sysucc.org",23,"") // ]]> Keywords: incidence, metastases, colon cancer, rectal cancer, SEER Received: August 13, 2015 Accepted: September 24, 2015 Published: October 15, 2015