What do you mean by low grade in colon cancer?

Tumor cell growth: Pathologist will predict the out come by criteria by grading high or low the cancer cell growth, fast growing rapidly dividing , poorly differentiated cell not even resemble the tissue , has several cancer cells in the field etc will have poor prognosis, reverse is in slow growing low grade tumor will have better prognosis.

Low grade: Low grade usually means slower growing cancer cells. High grade usually means faster growing cancer cells. You can ask your doctor, too. Please check out www.Michaelsmission.Org it is a very informative website about colorectal cancer.