In a comparison study with the seventh edition, updates in the eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM staging resulted in a more equalized distribution across stages and modestly increased prognostic accuracy for nonmetastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
A new method of measuring lean body mass accounts for changes in body composition, enabling improved disease staging and monitoring of therapy.
A new biomarker measurement might improve the accuracy of prognostic testing and precision medicine in uveal melanoma.
The current staging system for oropharyngeal cancer does not adequately differentiate HPV-positive from HPV-negative OPC. These researchers suggest regional OPC lymph node (N) categories and nasopharyngeal N categories might be more useful in staging HPV-positive OPC.
Improvements in scoring the severity of mesothelioma could be achieved by considering both tumor weight and volume.
Non-small cell lung cancer stage is increased due to discovering a lymph node positive for cancer more often following open chest surgery, compared with closed surgery.
Both the stage of cervical cancer at diagnosis and the receipt of fertility-sparing treatment among young women age 21 to 25 years, but not among women age 26 to 34 years, is associated with the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Expansion provision.
Although FDG PET/CT is appropriate for systemic staging of newly diagnosed stage III breast cancer, the technique may not be equally valuable for all breast cancer histologies, research indicates.
This fact sheet explains cancer staging, the TNM System, and tests commonly used to determine cancer stage.
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the quality level of diagnostic staging using biopsy in patients with bladder cancer is directly linked with their survival.
