title: Survival following resection for colorectal cancer. A New Zealand national study.
abstract: The crude overall five-year survival rate for New Zealand patients with colorectal cancer treated surgically was 42 percent. Less than 50 percent of patients with Stage I and Stage II tumors survived ten years. Women survived longer after surgery than men. It was not possible to determine a biologic cure rate because postmortem data were not available.
mesh_terms: D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand; D011379:Prognosis; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors