Do you need chemotherapy for colon cancer T3N0M0?

Colon cancer T3N0M0 belongs to stage IIA, generally patients do not need chemotherapy, only some patients with high risk of recurrence and metastasis need to be given chemotherapy. The high-risk factors for recurrence and metastasis of colon cancer T3N0M0 include the number of lymph nodes cleared during surgery is less than 12, the patient’s postoperative pathology is low-differentiated cancer, the patient has had complications such as perforation or intestinal obstruction before surgery, the postoperative pathology suggests that there is vascular-lymphatic or nerve invasion in the lesion, and the postoperative pathology and immunohistochemistry suggests that there are factors with poor prognosis, and so on. If a patient with T3N0M0 stage colon cancer has any of the above high-risk factors, the patient needs to be given 8 to 12 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery.