QuestionSBA
QuestionChoice
Yes, this is the correct answer. Duke's staging system is used to classify bowel cancers, which can be helpful in making treatment decisions and prognosticating. In Duke's stage C bowel cancer, the disease has invaded local lymph nodes but not metastasized.
10007915
a
Stage C
QuestionChoice
No, this is not the correct answer. A Duke's stage A is given when the tumour is confined to the colonic mucosa.
10007916
b
Stage A
QuestionChoice
No, this is not the correct answer. A Duke's stage D is given when there is evidence of distant metastases. It is the most advanced form of disease.
10007918
d
Stage D
QuestionChoice
No, this is not the correct answer. A Duke's stage B is given when the tumour has invaded through the bowel wall.
10007917
c
Stage B
QuestionChoice
No, this is not the correct answer. This stage does not exist in the Duke's staging system, which classifies cancers from A to D.
10007919
e
Stage E
Concept
Chapter
2693
4443
Colorectal cancer
Topic
225
Oncology and Palliative Care
14130
A 56-year-old man with colorectal cancer undergoes surgery for resection of his tumour. The tumour has invaded through the bowel wall, and that there is some lymph node involvement.

Which of the following stages of the Duke's staging system best describes this tumour?
a