CT is unreliable in locoregional staging of early colon cancer: A nationwide registry-based study.

Erik Wetterholm Roberto RosénMilladur RahmanCarl-Fredrik Rönnow

Published in: Scandinavian journal of surgery : SJS : official organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society (2022)

This nationwide population-based study shows that CT-staging carries a substantial risk of understaging locally advanced tumors as cT1-2 and pT1 tumors as cTx, in addition to poor N-staging. Thus, CT obtained T- and N-staging should not be used for deciding treatment strategies in early CC.

Keyphrases

image quality
dual energy
lymph node
computed tomography
contrast enhanced
pet ct
positron emission tomography
locally advanced
magnetic resonance imaging
cross sectional
rectal cancer
radiation therapy
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
multidrug resistant
klebsiella pneumoniae