Reply: How do we stage acellular mucin in lymph nodes of colorectal cancer specimens without neo-adjuvant therapy?

Abstract

Following our recently published correspondence on this subject¹, we have been made aware that the UICC/TNM have given a view on the staging of colorectal cancer in neo-adjuvant therapy-naïve colorectal cancer patients, whereby acellular mucin in lymph nodes has been detected. Like us, they view such a finding as representing lymph node disease positive for metastatic colorectal cancer².

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