title: A postmortem appraisal of a clinicopathologic staging system in large-bowel cancer.
abstract: The autopsy findings of 100 patients who had a resection for large-bowel cancer and who were classified by a clinicopathologic staging system were analyzed. Seventy patients had carcinoma at autopsy. The value of this method of staging was assessed by relating the stage at operation to these findings. Forty-five per cent of early stage tumors (A or B) were found to have metastases. If the detection rate of occult metastases could be improved for stage A and B tumors, this might increase the prognostic accuracy of this staging system.
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D011336:Probability; D011379:Prognosis; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology