Cancer staging manual 6th edition

Cases diagnosed beginning in are TNM-staged using the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, Sixth Edition (with updates). The codes used to record the staging information can be found in the FORDS Manual and this MCR Manual. Both the staging manual and a coding manual must be used to record AJCC staging fields. In this edition, evidence-based TNM staging is supplemented, as appropriate, by selected molecular markers and newly acquired insights into the molecular underpinnings of cancer. This edition features 12 entirely new staging systems, a wide range of changed or new staging definitions, and a refined emphasis on a personalized-medicine approach. Consult the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual 5th or 6th edition for detailed descriptions of the components and other staging guidelines. Head and neck cancers are primarily staged clinically. All head and neck sites with the exception of thyroid use the same classification system for regional lymph nodes.

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Now the sixth edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual is available, after 2 years of intensive work by several task force groups built up from many eminent. Colon cancer was staged by the 6th edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. (AJCC-6) and then restaged by AJCC Five-year disease-specific survival and. the AJCC/UICC gastric cancer staging manual was intro- duced, resulting in several changes from the 6th edition, particularly as regards the N categories.