Tumour budding and its clinical implications in gastrointestinal cancers.

Zlobec, Inti; Berger, Martin D.; Lugli, Alessandro (2020). Tumour budding and its clinical implications in gastrointestinal cancers. British journal of cancer, 123(5), pp. 700-708. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41416-020-0954-z

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Tumour budding in colorectal cancer has become an important prognostic factor. Represented by single cells or small tumour cell clusters at the invasion front of the tumour mass, these tumour buds seem to reflect cells in a 'hybrid' state of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and evidence indicates that the presence of these entities is associated with lymph node metastasis, local recurrence and distant metastatic disease. The International Tumour Budding Consensus Conference (ITBCC) has highlighted a scoring system for the reporting of tumour budding in colorectal cancer, as well as different clinical scenarios that could affect patient management. Other organs are not spared: tumour budding has been described in numerous gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal cancers. Here, we give an update on ITBCC validation studies in the context of colorectal cancer and the clinical implications of tumour budding throughout the upper gastrointestinal and pancreatico-biliary tract.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Review Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Medical Oncology

UniBE Contributor:

Zlobec, Inti, Berger, Martin Dave, Lugli, Alessandro

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0007-0920

Publisher:

Nature Publishing Group

Language:

English

Submitter:

Rebeka Gerber

Date Deposited:

26 Aug 2020 11:20

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:40

Publisher DOI:

10.1038/s41416-020-0954-z

PubMed ID:

32601463

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.146077

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/146077

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