[The outline of the general rule for clinical and pathological record of lung cancer].

In 1999, the Japan Lung Cancer Society published the fifth Japanese edition of the General Rule for Clinical and Pathological Record of Lung Cancer. According to the new UICC's TNM classification revised in 1997, the TNM classification of this General Rule was modified. The guide to taking good conventional and high resolution chest computed tomogram was showed. The types of bronchoscopic findings was simplified. In operative procedures, curability of surgical resection was divided into only two groups: complete resection and incomplete resection. Although WHO/IASLC histological classification was revised in 1999, the histological classification hasn't been modified yet in this new edition of General rule. It will be changed in the next version.