Advanced mucinous colorectal cancer – epidemiology, prognosis and efficacy of chemotherapeutic treatment

Background: Occasionally, patients with colorectal cancer are diagnosed with a mucinous subtype of the disease. Although well known, the clinicopathological significance of this histological finding remains controversial. As of today, none of the current guidelines for treatment of colorectal cancer differentiate treatment with respect to mucinous or non-mucinous cancer. Due to the lack of substantiated data, best treatment approaches remain unclear and mucinous subtype of CRC is mostly treated along the lines of recommendations for adenocarcinoma of the colon. Methods: We investigated an East-Bavarian cohort of…