The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: External Validation of the Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification of Lung Cancer
Articles > Article · 2017
Authors: Tuncay GÖKSEL, Kari Chansky, Frank C. Detterbeck, Andrew G. Nicholson, Valerie W. Rusch, Eric Vallieres, Patti Groome, Catherine Kennedy, Mark Krasnik, Michael Peake, Lynn Shemanski, Vanessa Bolejack, John J. Crowley, Hisao Asamura, Ramon Rami-Porta
JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2017, vol 12, pp 1109-1121
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.04.011
Summary
Introduction: Revisions to the TNM stage classifications for lung cancer, Informed by the international database (N = 94,708) of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee, need external validation. The objective was to externally validate the revisions by using the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) of the American College of Surgeons.