TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours: Edition 7

Leslie H. Sobin · Mary K. Gospodarowicz · Christian Wittekind

août 2011 · John Wiley & Sons

À propos de cet e-book

TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, 7th Edition provides the latest, internationally agreed-upon standards to describe and categorize cancer stages and progression. Published in affiliation with the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), this authoritative guide contains important updated organ-specific classifications that oncologists and other professionals who manage patients with cancer need to accurately classify tumours for staging, prognosis and treatment.

The major alterations addressed in the 7th Edition concern carcinomas of the oesophagus and the gastroesophageal junction, stomach, lung, appendix, biliary tract, skin, and prostate. In addition, there are several entirely new classifications:

• gastrointestinal carcinoids (neuroendocrine tumours)
• gastrointestinal stromal tumour
• upper aerodigestive mucosal melanoma
• Merkel cell carcinoma
• uterine sarcomas
• intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
• adrenal cortical carcinoma.

A new approach has also been adopted to separate anatomical stage groupings from prognostic groupings in which other prognostic factors are added to T, N, and M categories. These new prognostic groupings, as well as the traditional anatomical groupings, are presented for oesophageal and prostate carcinomas.

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À propos de l'auteur

Leslie H. Sobin, MD, is in the Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology at the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, DC, USA.

Christian Wittekind, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the Institute for Pathology at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Both Dr. Sobin and Dr. Wittekind represent a large international panel of oncology and oncologic pathology experts who contribute regularly to each new edition of the TNM Classification.