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Metastatic sites and survival in lung cancer

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A novel population-based approach to identify metastases from both death certificates and national inpatient data to describe metastatic pathways in lung cancer patients found liver metastases conferred the worst prognosis, especially for large cell histology.
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This article is published in Lung Cancer.The article was published on 2014-10-01. It has received 530 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bone metastasis & CA15-3.

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Patterns of metastasis in colon and rectal cancer

TL;DR: Assessment of metastatic spread in colon and rectal cancers using a population based approach revealed Thoracic metastases are almost as common as liver metastases in rectal cancer patients with a low stage at diagnosis and should help clinicians to identify patients in need for extra surveillance.
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External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register

TL;DR: The validity of the Swedish IPR is high for many but not all diagnoses, but for certain research areas the use of other health registers, such as the Swedish Cancer Register, may be more suitable.
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Metastasis to bone: causes, consequences and therapeutic opportunities

TL;DR: The most common human cancers — lung, breast and prostate — have a great avidity for bone, leading to painful and untreatable consequences.
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The seed and soil hypothesis revisited-The role of tumor-stroma interactions in metastasis to different organs

TL;DR: The most frequent target organs of metastasis are bone, brain, liver and the lung, and how tumor‐stromal interactions influence metastasis in each of these organs is discussed.
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Metastatic patterns in adenocarcinoma

TL;DR: Clinical data was analyzed from a large number of patients with histologically confirmed, distant‐stage adenocarcinoma to evaluate metastatic patterns.
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Metastatic Patterns of Cancers: Results From a Large Autopsy Study

TL;DR: Not surprisingly, different primary cancers tended to metastasize, with differing frequencies, to different sites, which might be helpful in deducing the origins of cancers whose primary sites are unclear at presentation.
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