National Health Commission guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer in China (2025 edition, English version).

The National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer (2025 edition), based on evidence-based medicine, integrates cutting-edge international advances with Chinese clinical practice, and supplements and completes the previous versions. This version of the guidelines, retains the core diagnostic and treatment framework, highlights new contents such as "Surgical treatment of anal canal cancer" and "New technologies and advances in diagnosis and treatment", and systematically summarizes the core points in the surgical treatment, medical oncology treatment, radiation oncology treatment, imaging, and pathology treatment. It is designed to help clinicians quickly grasp the key points of the guidelines and promote the standardization, precision, and consistence of colorectal cancer diagnosis and treatment.