The seventh edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer Staging Manuals: The new era of data-driven revisions

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 819-821

  Rusch, Valerie W ^a   Rice, Thomas W ^b   Crowley, John ^c   Blackstone, Eugene H ^b   Rami Porta, Ramon ^d   Goldstraw, Peter ^e  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^e ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; DATA BASE; DYSPLASIA; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX SURGERY;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 77949475495     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.02.013     Document Type: Editorial

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