The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Summary of Proposals for Revisions of the Classification of Lung Cancers with Multiple Pulmonary Sites of Involvement in the Forthcoming Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification
Articles > Article · 2016
Authors: Tuncay GÖKSEL, Frank C. Detterbeck, Andrew G. Nicholson, Wilbur A. Franklin, Edith M. Marom, William D. Travis, Nicolas Girard, Douglas A. Arenberg, Vanessa Bolejack, Jessica S. Donington, Peter J. Mazzone, Lynn T. Tanoue, Valerie W. Rusch, John Crowley, Hisao Asamura, Ramon Rami-Porta
JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2016, vol 11, pp 639-650
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2016.01.024
Summary
Introduction: Patients with lung cancer who harbor multiple pulmonary sites of disease have been challenging to classify; a subcommittee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee was charged with developing proposals for the eighth edition of the tumor, node, and metastasis (TNM) classification to address this issue.