Colon and Rectum - College of American Pathologists

COLON AND RECTUM: Resection, Including Transanal Disk Excision of Rectal Neoplasms. ... a predictive marker of response to chemotherapy, and as a screening tool for HNPCC (Lynch syndrome). ... Pathologic staging is usually performed after surgical resection of the primary tumor. Pathologic staging depends on pathologic documentation of the ... ................
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