Table 9.

Colorectal cancer: additional considerations.

	NCCN a Recommendations	ESMO b Recommendations	JSCCR c Recommendations
Minimally invasive surgery	Considerations: -Experienced surgeon. -No locally advanced disease and/or complications. -Consider preoperative marking of lesion.	Determined by the surgeon’s experience, the stage and location of the cancer and patient factors such as obesity and previous open abdominal surgery	Considerations: -Technical expertise -Location of the tumour -Degree of progression of the cancer -Patient factors: obesity, adhesions

Adapted with permission from the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines^®) for Guideline Colon Cancer V.1.2022. © 2022 National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Inc. All rights reserved. The NCCN Guidelines^® and illustrations herein may not be reproduced in any form for any purpose without the express written permission of NCCN. To view the most recent and complete version of the NCCN Guidelines, go online to NCCN.org. The NCCN Guidelines are a work in progress that may be refined as often as new significant data become available; ^a NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines^®) [13,14]; ^b European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) guidelines [15,16]; ^c Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR) guidelines [18].