The role of postoperative pathological staging for adjuvant arrangement and prognosis evaluation of rectal cancer
Abstract：Precise pathological examination plays a core role in the diagnosis and treatment of rectal cancer. It can evaluate the effect of neo-adjuvant radio-chemotherapy and surgical treatment, can assist postoperative adjuvant therapy, and can even evaluate the risk of prognosis. TNM staging are the basis of routine pathological assessment of rectal cancer. Molecular pathological diagnosis has entered clinical application. The common pathological indices of adjuvant therapy and prognosis evaluation include T staging, N staging, circumferential resection margin, response of neo-adjuvant therapy, lymphovascular invasion, perineural invasion, response of neo-adjuvant therapy, RAS gene status, BRAF gene status and MMR status.
Keywords：rectal cancerpathologyadjuvant therapyprognosis evaluation
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 62-65 )