Question 22 (part 2) · LEK · Colorectal cancer
Dukes classification is used to determine the staging of colorectal cancer. Stage B in this scale means that:
- A. it has gone through the bowel wall.
- B. it is limited to the bowel wall.
- C. its range is not important as there are metastases in the paracolic lymph nodes or along blood vessels.
- D. there are distant metastases.
- E. none of the above.
Hint
Recall the sequence A to D: confined to the wall, beyond the wall, lymph nodes, distant spread.
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