Preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen level as a prognostic indicator in colorectal cancer.

@article{Wanebo1978PreoperativeCA,
  title={Preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen level as a prognostic indicator in colorectal cancer.},
  author={Harold J. Wanebo and Bobby S. Rao and Carl M. Pinsky and Raymond G. Hoffman and Mona Stearns and Morton K. Schwartz and Herbert Friedrich Oettgen},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={1978},
  volume={299 9},
  pages={
          448-51
        }
}

• Harold J. Wanebo, Bobby S. Rao, +4 authors Herbert Friedrich Oettgen
• Published 1978 in The New England journal of medicine

We examined the relation of carcinoembryonic antigen levels to time, site and extent of recurrence in 358 patients with colorectal cancer. The recurrence rate was higher in patients with Dukes' B and Dukes' C lesions who had preoperative levels higher than 5 ng per milliliter. There was a linear inverse correlation between preoperative levels and estimated mean time to recurrence in patients with Dukes' B and C lesions, ranging from 30 months for a level of 2 to 9.8 months for a level of 70 ng… CONTINUE READING

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