The American Joint Committee on Cancer: the 7th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and the Future of TNM
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...’’ In fact, up until the current 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer (AJCC/UICCA) staging manual, there was no distinct internationally recognized staging system for iCCA [137]....
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...With the recent publication of the 7th edition of the AJCC/UICCA staging manual, there is now a new distinct staging system for iCCA [137]....
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...Specifically, tumor size is no longer a prognostic factor, rather, T-classification is based on the number of lesions, vascular invasion, intrahepatic metastasis, and invasion of adjacent structures [137]....
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...The 7th edition AJCC/UICCA staging system largely reflects many of the proposals included in previous publications [137,142]....
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...The evaluation of breast sentinel lymph nodes is an important component of the American Joint Committee on Cancer’s TNM breast cancer staging system, in which patients with a sentinel lymph node positive for metastatic cancer will receive a higher pathologic TNM stage than patients negative for sentinel lymph node metastasis [6], frequently resulting in more aggressive clinical management, including axillary lymph node dissection [13, 14]....
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...The latest revision of TNM, presented in the 7th edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, takes effect for cases diagnosed on or after January 1, 2010.(1) This supplants the 6th edition, in use since 2003....
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