SINGAPORE — Proposed updates to the tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classification for lung cancer will affect the way patients are staged, experts say. The updates for the 9th Edition of the TNM ...
Show More Hideki Ueno, Hidetaka Mochizuki, Hideyuki Shimazaki, and Takahiro Nakamura, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa; Yoshito Akagi, Kurume University Faculty of Medicine, Kurume; Takaya ...
Validation of the lung cancer staging system revisions using a large prospective clinical trial database (ACOSOG Z0030). Background: A change of staging classification has been associated with ...
Tumor deposits are a significant prognostic factor in colorectal cancer, yet underutilized in N-staging. Ten novel models incorporating tumor deposits showed improved prognostic performance over the ...
TORONTO—The TNM stratification system does not accurately characterize cancer-free survival in lymph node-positive renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but the number and density of positive nodes do, new ...
A follicular thyroid carcinoma was diagnosed in 31 out of 169 examined patients (18%), and in 138 patients (82%) a papillary carcinoma was diagnosed. The tumor size was 20.5 ± 15 mm (mean ± 50). Tumor ...