Michio Itabashi

TL;DR: The English version of the JSCCR Guidelines 2016 is presented, which can be used as a tool for treating colorectal cancer in actual clinical practice settings and as a guide to obtaining informed consent from patients and choosing the method of treatment for each patient.

TL;DR: The English version of the JSCCR Guidelines 2014 can be used as a guide to obtaining informed consent from patients and choosing the method of treatment for each patient, and can, therefore, be used for treating colorectal cancer in clinical practice.

TL;DR: Self-expanding stainless steel stents were used to dilate rectosigmoid strictures caused by nonresectable recurrent neoplasm and insertion and dilation in two patients were successful, and patients were able to maintain bowel activity and avoid palliative loop colostomy.

TL;DR: Identification of LN-positive cases on the basis of PRLN and LPLN sizes was superior at a short-axis 5 mm cutoff, and further investigation is needed to clarify whether it is superior to diagnosis based on morphology, such as shape, border, and signal intensity.

TL;DR: This retrospective analysis suggested that the indications for pulmonary resection of CRC metastases should be decided not only by the status of lung metastases, but also by pulmonary-related factors such as the T and N stage of the primary lesion, preoperative CEA level, and the DFI.