J Thorac Oncol
*Thoracic Surgery, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan; †Thoracic Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; ‡Thoracic Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT; §Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; ‖Biostatistics, Cancer Research And Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; ¶Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; #Radiation Oncology, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada; **Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy; ††Medical Oncology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; ‡‡Thoracic Surgery, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; §§Thoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea; ‖‖Thoracic Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; ¶¶Pathology, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy; ##Radiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; ***Pathology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Published: September 2014
Stage classification is an important underpinning of management of patients with cancer, and rests on a combination of three components: T for tumor extent, N for nodal involvement, and M for more distant metastases. This article details an initiative to develop proposals for the first official stage classification system for thymic malignancies for the 8th edition of the stage classification manuals. Specifically, the results of analysis of a large database and the considerations leading to the proposed N and M components are described. Nodal involvement is divided into an anterior (N1) and a deep (N2) category. Metastases can involve pleural or pericardial nodules (M1a) or intraparenchymal pulmonary nodules or metastases to distant sites (M1b).
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