Unraveling the routes to distant metastases in colorectal cancer: Tumor deposits and lymph node metastases as the gateway

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
• ² Department of Pathology, PathologyDNA, Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
• ³ Department of Pathology, Eurofins/Laboratoria voor Pathologie en Medische Microbiologie Nederland, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ GI Cancer Imaging Research Unit, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.
• ⁷ Department of Surgery, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Imperial College London Hammersmith Campus, London, London, United Kingdom.