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. 2014 Jul 2;6:291–300. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S38827

Figure 3.

Figure 3

(AD) Additional prognostic variables in colorectal cancer. (A) Coagulative tumor necrosis reflecting chronic ischemic injury due to rapid tumor growth. Assessing the anti-tumoral inflammatory response is another novel prognostic tool which commonly indicates favorable outcome. (B) Marked overall inflammation at the tumor margin, characterized by a mixed inflammatory infiltrate with destruction of cancer-cell islets. (C) Antitumor immune response, characterized by dense peritumoral lymphocytic infiltration; (D) Eosinophilic infiltration of the tumor area (tumor-associated tissue eosinophilia).