The role of laparoscopy in the curative treatment of colonic cancer is still under
debate. In this thesis, the short and long term results of the COLOR trial are presented
to identify clinically significant differences in short and long term outcome
between laparoscopic and open resection of colon cancer. For the COLOR trial
only colon cancer patients without evidence for distant metastatic disease were
selected. In patients with stage III disease, the treatment was followed by adjuvant
chemotherapy, according to local protocols. Therefore, in this thesis, patients with
distant spread of colon cancer are not regarded.
http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/26743/111026_Veldkamp%2C%20Ruben.pdf 
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