abstract: Importance of Histologic Subtype in the Staging of Appendiceal Tumors

Blogger's Note:  appendiceal cancer (cancer of the appendix) is not the only cancer where cell type histologic records are deficient eg. breast cancer; why it's important? many reasons: patients with dual malignancies, primary vs metastatic, borderline/invasive.....; as in ovarian cancer cell,  type/s are included in one's own individual pathology report/s

Abstract

Background

Malignant neoplasms of the appendix have different behavior based on their histologic subtypes in anecdotal series. Current staging systems do not capture the diversity of histologic subtypes in predicting outcomes.