Identification of tumour regression in neoadjuvantly treated pancreatic cancer is based on divergent and nonspecific criteria
Maia Blomhoff Holm,
Daniela Lenggenhager,
Sönke Detlefsen
et al.
Abstract:AimsFollowing the increased use of neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer, grading of tumour regression (TR) has become part of routine diagnostics. However, it suffers from marked interobserver variation, which is mainly ascribed to the subjectivity of the defining criteria of the categories in TR grading systems. We hypothesized that a further cause for the interobserver variation is the use of divergent and nonspecific morphological criteria to identify tumour regression.Methods and ResultsTwenty treatme… Show more
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