What is the TNM staging system? The stage of a cancer tells you how big it is and how far it has spread. It helps your doctor decide the best treatment for you. The TNM staging system stands for: The ...

Cancer staging is an essential and integral part of cancer management and a predictive staging system not only provides accurate prognostic information to clinicians and their patients but also helps ...

Staging is a way of describing the size of a cancer and how far it has grown. When doctors first diagnose a cancer, they carry out tests to: check how big the cancer is whether it has spread into ...

The process of staging lung cancer accurately plays a major role in establishing treatment options and predicting survival. Proper lung cancer staging demands a thorough understanding of TNM-8, which ...

As a consistent fraction of patients with locally advanced colonic carcinoma experience a relapse, 5, 6 one of the reasons accounting for this failure may be the difficulty in correctly stratifying ...

Aim: To compare the new, 6th edition, UICC TNM staging system with the former edition, we updated TNM staging in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Methods: The new and old TNM ...

Tumor deposits are a significant prognostic factor in colorectal cancer, yet underutilized in N-staging. Ten novel models incorporating tumor deposits showed improved prognostic performance over the ...

The new Sassun-Mayo staging system, which integrates tumor deposit and lymph node counts, improves prognostic accuracy for patients with colon cancer compared with the standard American Joint ...