J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 88(9): 1087-1092, 1987
Report on the annual meeting
DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF LARGE INTESTINAL CARCINOMA FROM A VIEWPOINT OF THE MALIGNANT POTENTIAL
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The First Department of Surgery, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan Katsuhisa Shindo, Masayuki Yasutomi, Taiji Matsuda, Kazuyoshi Kurooka, Masaki Hatta, Eiji Morikawa, Ryuichi Kubo |
Abnormality of mytosis and proliferation of cancer cells is related to a histogram pattern of the nuclear DNA contents, while destroying power of cancer cells is related to the vascular invasion and to the lymphatic permeation.
Aneuploid cases tend to be poor in prognosis even in early cancer, and hyperploid cases show higher rate of cancer death.
Cases of high malignant potential must be treated with more extensive resection than usual, accompanying intensive adjuvant therapy.
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