The grading and prognosis of carcinoma of the colon and rectum
The grading and prognosis of carcinoma of the colon and rectum
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10.1097/00000658-193904000-00002
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1939-01-01
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9
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Grinnell, RS
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Grinnell, RS
SINCE I893, when Von Hansemann'first attempted to grade the malignancy of tumors by their histology, many pathologists have made similar studies on all varieties of tumors. Most have agreed that grading is of some value in prognosis, but have disagreed as to how much. Others have not found it of any significance. Studies on colon and rectal tumors have been made chiefly by Rankin and Broders, 2 Rankin, 3 Rankin and Olson, 4 Dukes, 5 6 Stewart and Spies, 7 Wood and Wilkie, 8 and Raiford. 9 Each was convinced of the importance of grading in prognosis, but did not always use the same method. Rankin and Broders divided the tumors into four grades according to the relative proportion of differentiated and undifferentiated cells. Dukes used this method also. Stewart and Spies based their grades on the number of mitoses, the amount of papillary formation, the degree to which the polarity of the cells and their nuclei had been maintained, and the preservation of adenoid structure. Wood and Wilkie adopted a similar method, based mainly on low power magnification, but apparently did not use the frequency of mitosis as a criterion. MacCarty'0 advocated other criteria, based on changes in the stroma, such as lymphocytic infiltration, fibrosis, and hyalinization. Other pathologists have used still other methods for estimating the malignancy of tumors. In a recent study of a series of carcinomata of the breast, Haagensen1'has, for the first time, attempted to determine statistically the value of the various criteria used. Fifteen in all were studied, involving differences in thegrowth of cells, differences in cellmorphology, and differences in the reaction of the stroma. Six were found to have prognostic significance and were used to determine the grades of the tumors in his series. These criteria were the papillary structure, comedo character, adenoid arrangement, variations in size and shape of the nuclei, the number of mitoses, and gelatinous degeneration. Of course, criteria which are of value in breast cancer are not necessarily suitable to apply to other types. Ineach type of tumor, they should be redetermined by such a study as Haagensen has made. In the present series, this has been attempted. This series includes all the cases of carcinoma of the colon and rectum admitted to the Presbyterian Hospital from I9I6 to I932, inclusive, upon whom a resection had been performed with the expectancy of possible cure of the patient and in which cases microscopic sections were available. Both Submitted for publication September 27, I938. 500