The new (Version 9) American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor, node, metastasis staging for cervical cancer

Final version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for cutaneous melanoma.

PURPOSE To revise the staging system for cutaneous melanoma under the auspices of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS The prognostic factors analysis described in the companion publication (this issue), as well as evidence from the published literature, was used to assemble the tumor-node-metastasis criteria and stage grouping for the melanoma staging system. ...

Re: Colon cancer survival rates with the new American Joint Committee on Cancer sixth edition staging.

O'Connell et al. (1) showed that the stage groupings in the newer sixth edition of the tumor-lymph node-metastasis (TNM) staging system more distinctly stratify survival than the fi fth edition (2 , 3). However, survival was worse with T4N0M0 (stage IIB) than with T1-2N1M0 (stage IIIA) disease. Review of 351 000 colon cancer case records in the National Cancer Data Base confi rms this fi nding ...

Colon cancer survival rates with the new American Joint Committee on Cancer sixth edition staging.

BACKGROUND The recently revised American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) sixth edition cancer staging system increased the stratification within colon cancer stages II and III defined by the AJCC fifth edition system. Using nationally representative Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data, we compared survival rates associated with colon cancer stages defined according to both ...

American joint committee on cancer staging of uveal melanoma

In January 2010, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) updated its staging criteria for uveal melanoma. Here, we discuss the staging classifications and evaluate an interesting case to demonstrate. The development of a uniform means of staging cancer, such as defined by the AJCC, is critical for information sharing among the research community.

Lymphnode staging update in the American Joint Committee on Cancer 8th Edition cancer staging manual.