Description:
TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, 7th Edition
provides the latest, internationally agreed-upon standards to describe
and categorize cancer stages and progression. Published in affiliation
with the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), this authoritative
guide contains important updated organ-specific classifications that
oncologists and other professionals who manage patients with cancer need
to accurately classify tumours for staging, prognosis and treatment.
The major alterations addressed in the 7th Edition
concern carcinomas of the oesophagus and the gastroesophageal junction,
stomach, lung, appendix, biliary tract, skin, and prostate. In addition,
there are several entirely new classifications:
gastrointestinal carcinoids (neuroendocrine tumours)
gastrointestinal stromal tumour
upper aerodigestive mucosal melanoma
Merkel cell carcinoma
uterine sarcomas
intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
adrenal cortical carcinoma.
A new approach has also been adopted to separate anatomical stage
groupings from prognostic groupings in which other prognostic factors
are added to T, N, and M categories. These new prognostic groupings, as
well as the traditional anatomical groupings, are presented for
oesophageal and prostate carcinomas.
Reviews: "This is an update of the standard manual that has proven its value over
the many years since it was first published ... .The seventh edition
will be welcomed by all who have used the previous editions." (Doody's,
March 2010)
"The material is therefore immediately applicable to patients worldwide,
and not influenced by any particular healthcare system. The
publication's greatest virtue continues to be its simplicity, distilling
and arranging complex data in a way that is immediately applicable
wherever cancer patients are seen." (Knowledgespeak, December
2009)
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