Pathological response following long‐course neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer

Ronan Ryan, David Gibbons, John Hyland, Darren Treanor, Anne White, Hugh Mulcahy, Diarmuid P. O’Donoghue, M. Moriarty, D. Fennelly, Kieran Sheahan

Histopathology · 2005 · 701 citations · 19 references

Abstract

Tumour regression grade is a useful method of scoring tumour response to chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer. TRG 1 and 2 can be regarded as a complete pathological response (ypT0). A modified 3-point grade has the advantage of better reproducibility, with similar prognostic significance.

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