3 April 2017

Publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

This week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology: an international consortium, headed by Iris Nagtegaal, published a meta-analysis in the JCO demonstrating the importance of tumor deposits in colorectal cancer, which implies that they should not be considered simple lymph node metastases.

Moreover, they showed that different metastatic patterns exist, that do not have similar pathways of development.

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