Towards the introduction of the ‘Immunoscore’ in the classification of malignant tumours

The American Joint Committee on Cancer/Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (AJCC/UICC) TNM staging system provides the most reliable guidelines for the routine prognostication and treatment of colorectal carcinoma. This traditional tumour staging summarizes data on tumour burden (T), the presence of cancer cells in draining and regional lymph nodes (N) and evidence for distant metastases (M). However, it is now recognized that the clinical outcome can vary significantly among patients within the same stage. The current classification provides limited prognostic information and does not predict response to therapy. Multiple ways to classify cancer and to distinguish different subtypes of colorectal cancer…

• CR
  Cancer Research Institute
• SF
  Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
• JA
  Japan Association for Chemical Innovation
• PS
  Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• EC
  European Commission

  Award: 202230
• IN
  Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
• FN
  Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
• IN
  Institut National Du Cancer
• AP
  Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
• QN
  Qatar National Research Fund
• LI
  Labex Immuno-Oncology
• NC
  National Cancer Institute