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Colorectal cancer clinico-pathological stage

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
Synonymous names:Help on this termBowel cancer clinico-pathological stage
METEOR identifier:Help on this term569264
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 29/08/2014
Definition:Help on this term

Invasive colorectal cancer clinico-pathological stage is defined into four summary groups (Stages I-IV) based on the pathological TNM staging system:

StageTNM
UnknownNo information provided No information provided No information provided
Inadequately stagedInadequate information provided Inadequate information provided Inadequate information provided
IT1-T2N0M0
IIT2-T4N0M0
IIIT1-T4N1-N2M0
IVAny TAny NM1

The TNM staging system uses the letters 'T' to represent the tumour, 'N' to represent regional lymph node involvement and 'M' to represent distant metastases, with a numeric subscript (not subscripted in the table above) to indicate the degree of dissemination. For example, T1N0M0 designates a small localised tumour, T2N1M0 is a larger primary tumour that has extended to regional nodes, and T4N3M3 is a very large legion involving regional nodes and distant sites.

Colorectal cancer is considered to have reached at least Stage III if there is any lymph node involvement, and at Stage IV if there are any distant metastases.

Context:Help on this termColorectal cancer research and data analysis.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Reference documents:Help on this termHarris P, Nagy S, Vardaxis N (editors) 2010. Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 2nd Australian and New Zealand Edition. NSW: Mosby Elsevier page 275.

Relational attributes

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See also International Union against Cancer (UICC) TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours 7th edition
  • Health, Superseded 16/01/2020
See also Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours 8th edition
  • Health, Standard 16/01/2020
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