The Severity of Neural Invasion Is a Crucial Prognostic Factor in Rectal Cancer Independent of Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy

Abstract

Neural invasion in RC has a heterogeneous appearance in regard to its localization and its severity. nRCTx seems to have a suppressive effect on NI. Neural invasion severity might be applied as a novel tool to estimate accurately patient's prognosis and thus should be considered in pathology reports.