Journal
COLORECTAL DISEASE
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 242-243Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01260.x
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rectal cancer; pre-operative imaging; staging
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- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0507-10161] Funding Source: researchfish
- Pelican Cancer Foundation [506] Funding Source: researchfish
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Recent developments in cross-sectional imaging, particularly computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging have provided increasingly accurate noninvasive preoperative staging, especially for rectal cancer. Image-based TNM staging, by definition a pathological system, has entered both the literature and everyday usage with no universal agreement as to the exact terminology. Clarification of the current terminology and suggestions to reflect recent developments are outlined to facilitate multidisciplinary team decision processes and objective stratification for entry to, and monitoring of, future clinical trials in rectal cancer.
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