Clinical input: staging

Author(s):

• A/Professor Charles Chan MB BS, PhD, FRCPA — Author
• Professor Pierre Chapuis D.S. (Qld), FRACS — Author
• Cancer Council Australia Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party — Co-author

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A/Professor Charles Chan MB BS, PhD, FRCPA, Professor Pierre Chapuis D.S. (Qld), FRACS, Cancer Council Australia Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party. Guidelines:Colorectal cancer/Clinical input staging . In: Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer. Sydney: Cancer Council Australia. [Version URL: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australiawiki/index.php?oldid=173068, cited 2023 Sep 27]. Available from: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australia/Guidelines:Colorectal_cancer.

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Close collaboration between surgeon and pathologist is essential. The use of a clinicopathological staging system requires that the surgeon make the operative findings known to the pathologist. This is facilitated by completion of a convenient proforma for conveying this information to the pathologist as shown in Figure 8.1. Should this information be unavailable to the pathologist, the report should indicate that the stage has been assigned on the assumption that there were no known distant metastases present at the time of the resection.

Figure 8.1. Cancer of the colon and rectum — information for the pathologist

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Referring to the large bowel, comprising the colon and rectum.