Staging and surgery for colorectal cancer.
Staging of colorectal cancer has become increasingly important to select groups of patients for limited or more extensive surgery, and for adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The main treatment is still surgery, but subgroups may benefit from adjuvant therapy, even accepting additional side effects. Accurate staging is necessary to define different treatment groups. A critical review is given of the present methods of clinicopathological staging.
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Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark.
D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis