1973 Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 371-379,423
The study reported here is concerned with the clinicopathology of 15 cases of early cancer and 220 cases of advanced cancer of the colon and rectum. The patients were examined and treated at the 1st department of surgery, Toho university during the years Jan., 1952 to June, 1972 inclusive.
Author advocated the following modificated classification of colorected cancer and the Stage I should be called the earlycancer.