The principles of cancer staging

The anatomic disease extent or tumour stage of a cancer at diagnosis as a determinant of prognosis is discussed. The importance of cancer stage in individual patient prognosis and determination of treatment is reviewed as well as its value in research and cancer control activities. The conflict betw...

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Autores principales: Brierley, James, Gospodarowicz, Mary, O’Sullivan, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28101141
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.ed61
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spelling pubmed-52152382017-01-18 The principles of cancer staging Brierley, James Gospodarowicz, Mary O’Sullivan, Brian Ecancermedicalscience Editorial The anatomic disease extent or tumour stage of a cancer at diagnosis as a determinant of prognosis is discussed. The importance of cancer stage in individual patient prognosis and determination of treatment is reviewed as well as its value in research and cancer control activities. The conflict between the need for stability of cancer stage definitions over time and the need to evolve with advances in medicine are examined. The ecancer elearning modules on Cancer Stage are introduced. Cancer Intelligence 2016-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5215238/ /pubmed/28101141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.ed61 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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