Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer and third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with half of these occurring in Eastern Asia [1]. There are two major classification systems currently used, the Japanese classification and the system developed jointly by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). The Japanese classificat...

Aim Accurate clinical staging of cervical lymph nodes is essential for therapy planning in HNSCC patients, particularly cases non-surgical treatment without pathological staging. The aim this study was to evaluate the accuracy ultrasound elastography (UE) compared B-mode (US), CT, MRI and PET-MRI node patients.

BACKGROUND: The identification of all sites of intra-abdominal adenocarcinoma is key to optimal surgical resection and tumor staging. Conventional imaging methods and direct visualization and palpation have limited sensitivity and specificity. Radioimmunoguided surgery (RIGS) has a potential to improve these parameters. METHODS: The development of the RIGS concept is presented, and the studies ...

BACKGROUND Borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs) are a subset of epithelial ovarian tumors with low malignant potential but significant risk of relapse (10% to 30%). Unfortunately, surgical prognostic factors for BOT relapse have not been clearly identified, probably due to the use of heterogeneous surgical definitions and limited follow-up. The aim of this study was to assess potential relapse risk...

Background Currently, a PET-CT is used to assess the need for extended field radiotherapy of para-aortic lymph nodes (PALN) in International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IB2, IIA2-IVA (locally advanced stage) cervical cancer. A small study established a sensitivity and specificity estimate for PALN metastases of 50% (95% CI; 7-93%) and 83% (95% CI; 52-98%), respectively...

background endometrial carcinoma is a highly prevalent gynecologic malignancy. the international federation of gynecology and obstetrics (figo) staging system underwent significant revision on 2009. key changes in the figo staging system include simplification of stage i endometrial cancer and removal of cervical mucosal invasion as a separate stage. mri is a noninvasive diagnostic method for p...

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) staging for all cancer sites has been periodically updated as a published manual many years. last update, the eighth edition AJCC Staging Manual went into use January 1, 2018. since restructured and its processes, staging-related data are now housed new application programming interface. Consequently, next TNM version 9...