Erschienen in:
22.06.2020 | Research Communication
Tumor Deposits Should Not Be Ignored in the AJCC TNM Staging System for ypN(+) Stage Rectal Cancer with Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy
verfasst von:
Liang Yu, Tianlei Xu, Lin Zhang, Yuelu Zhu, Hui Fang, Haizeng Zhang
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
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Ausgabe 10/2020
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Excerpt
In the current American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM staging system, tumor deposits (TDs) are classified as stage N1c when lacking lymph node metastases (LNM) for patients with rectal cancer.
1 Whether this stratification method is suitable for patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) is still unknown.
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4 Thus, we conducted this retrospective study to assess the prognostic value of TDs in patients with rectal cancer after NCRT. …