scholarly journals Revision concepts and distinctive points of the new Japanese classification for biliary tract cancers in comparison with the 7thedition of the Union for International Cancer Control and the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Ohtsuka ◽  
Shuichi Miyakawa ◽  
Masato Nagino ◽  
Tadahiro Takada ◽  
Masaru Miyazaki
Keyword(s):  
Biliary Tract ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Staging System ◽  
Cancer Staging ◽  
Biliary Tract Cancers ◽  
Japanese Classification ◽  
American Joint Committee

Final Version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System for Cutaneous Melanoma

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (16) ◽  
pp. 3635-3648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Balch ◽  
Antonio C. Buzaid ◽  
Seng-Jaw Soong ◽  
Michael B. Atkins ◽  
Natale Cascinelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cutaneous Melanoma ◽  
Elevated Serum ◽  
Primary Melanoma ◽  
Staging System ◽  
Distant Metastases ◽  
Lactic Dehydrogenase ◽  
Cancer Staging ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Stage Grouping ◽  
American Joint Committee

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. RESULTS: Major changes include (1) melanoma thickness and ulceration but not level of invasion to be used in the T category (except for T1 melanomas); (2) the number of metastatic lymph nodes rather than their gross dimensions and the delineation of clinically occult (ie, microscopic) versus clinically apparent (ie, macroscopic) nodal metastases to be used in the N category; (3) the site of distant metastases and the presence of elevated serum lactic dehydrogenase to be used in the M category; (4) an upstaging of all patients with stage I, II, and III disease when a primary melanoma is ulcerated; (5) a merging of satellite metastases around a primary melanoma and in-transit metastases into a single staging entity that is grouped into stage III disease; and (6) a new convention for defining clinical and pathologic staging so as to take into account the staging information gained from intraoperative lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy. CONCLUSION: This revision will become official with publication of the sixth edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual in the year 2002.

scholarly journals Survival of patients with early invasive melanoma down-staged under the new eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 272-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena A. von Schuckmann ◽  
Maria Celia B. Hughes ◽  
Rebecca Lee ◽  
Paul Lorigan ◽  
Kiarash Khosrotehrani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Staging System ◽  
Cancer Staging ◽  
American Joint Committee ◽  
Eighth Edition
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