Esophageal Cancer Staging

Accurate staging of esophageal cancer is very important to achieving optimal treatment outcomes. The AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer) first published TNM esophageal cancer staging recommendations in the first edition of their staging manual in 1977. Thereafter, the staging of esophageal can...

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Autor principal: Rice, Thomas W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2015
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26078921
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2015.48.3.157
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description Accurate staging of esophageal cancer is very important to achieving optimal treatment outcomes. The AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer) first published TNM esophageal cancer staging recommendations in the first edition of their staging manual in 1977. Thereafter, the staging of esophageal cancer was changed many times over the years. This article reviews the current status of staging of esophageal cancer.
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spelling pubmed-44632232015-06-15 Esophageal Cancer Staging Rice, Thomas W. Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Review Accurate staging of esophageal cancer is very important to achieving optimal treatment outcomes. The AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer) first published TNM esophageal cancer staging recommendations in the first edition of their staging manual in 1977. Thereafter, the staging of esophageal cancer was changed many times over the years. This article reviews the current status of staging of esophageal cancer. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2015-06 2015-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4463223/ /pubmed/26078921 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2015.48.3.157 Text en Copyright © 2015 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463223/
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