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Clinicopathological staging of colorectal cancer: Evolution and consensus—an Australian perspective
Author(s) -
Chapuis Pierre H,
Chan Charles,
Dent Owen F
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.214
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1440-1746
pISSN - 0815-9319
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2010.06538.x
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , consensus conference , perspective (graphical) , general surgery , cancer , oncology , artificial intelligence , computer science
In 1991 this journal published the report of an international working party to the World Congress of Gastroenterology regarding the clinicopathological staging of colorectal cancer. Since that time staging has continued to evolve as further prognostic factors in colorectal cancer have been elucidated in studies of increasingly large databases in several countries. This review summarizes several of the key issues that have arisen during this evolutionary process and raises matters which still remain controversial in staging at the present time.