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Romain Cohen, MD, PhD, on Colon Cancer: Prognostic Value of Tumor Deposits

2021 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

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Romain Cohen, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic and Sorbonne University, discusses a post-hoc analysis of phase III results from the CALGB/SWOG 80702 study, which showed that adding the number of tumor deposits, a negative prognostic factor, to the count of lymph node metastases may improve the accuracy of TNM staging (Abstract 10).



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