Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The normal lung: histology, embryology, development, aging and function
- Chapter 2 Lung specimen handling and practical considerations
- Chapter 3 Congenital abnormalities and pediatric lung diseases, including neoplasms
- Chapter 4 Pulmonary bacterial infections
- Chapter 5 Pulmonary viral infections
- Chapter 6 Pulmonary mycobacterial infections
- Chapter 7 Pulmonary mycotic infections
- Chapter 8 Pulmonary parasitic infections
- Chapter 9 Acute lung injury
- Chapter 10 Interstitial lung diseases
- Chapter 11 Metabolic and inherited connective tissue disorders involving the lung
- Chapter 12 Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Chapter 13 Sarcoidosis
- Chapter 14 Occupational lung disease
- Chapter 15 Eosinophilic lung disease
- Chapter 16 Drug- and therapy-induced lung injury
- Chapter 17 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diseases of the airways
- Chapter 18 Pulmonary vascular pathology
- Chapter 19 Pulmonary vasculitis and pulmonary hemorrhage syndromes
- Chapter 20 The pathology of lung transplantation
- Chapter 21 The lungs in connective tissue disease
- Chapter 22 Benign epithelial neoplasms and tumor-like proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 23 Pulmonary pre-invasive disease
- Chapter 24 Epidemiological and clinical aspects of lung cancer
- Chapter 25 Lung cancer staging
- Chapter 26 Immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of pulmonary tumors
- Chapter 27 Adenocarcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 28 Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 29 Large cell carcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 30 Salivary gland neoplasms of the lung
- Chapter 31 Neuroendocrine tumors and other neuroendocrine proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 32 Sarcomatoid carcinomas and variants
- Chapter 33 Mesenchymal and miscellaneous neoplasms
- Chapter 34 Pulmonary lymphoproliferative diseases
- Chapter 35 Metastases involving the lungs
- Chapter 36 Diseases of the pleura
- Index
- References
Chapter 25 - Lung cancer staging
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The normal lung: histology, embryology, development, aging and function
- Chapter 2 Lung specimen handling and practical considerations
- Chapter 3 Congenital abnormalities and pediatric lung diseases, including neoplasms
- Chapter 4 Pulmonary bacterial infections
- Chapter 5 Pulmonary viral infections
- Chapter 6 Pulmonary mycobacterial infections
- Chapter 7 Pulmonary mycotic infections
- Chapter 8 Pulmonary parasitic infections
- Chapter 9 Acute lung injury
- Chapter 10 Interstitial lung diseases
- Chapter 11 Metabolic and inherited connective tissue disorders involving the lung
- Chapter 12 Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Chapter 13 Sarcoidosis
- Chapter 14 Occupational lung disease
- Chapter 15 Eosinophilic lung disease
- Chapter 16 Drug- and therapy-induced lung injury
- Chapter 17 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diseases of the airways
- Chapter 18 Pulmonary vascular pathology
- Chapter 19 Pulmonary vasculitis and pulmonary hemorrhage syndromes
- Chapter 20 The pathology of lung transplantation
- Chapter 21 The lungs in connective tissue disease
- Chapter 22 Benign epithelial neoplasms and tumor-like proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 23 Pulmonary pre-invasive disease
- Chapter 24 Epidemiological and clinical aspects of lung cancer
- Chapter 25 Lung cancer staging
- Chapter 26 Immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of pulmonary tumors
- Chapter 27 Adenocarcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 28 Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 29 Large cell carcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 30 Salivary gland neoplasms of the lung
- Chapter 31 Neuroendocrine tumors and other neuroendocrine proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 32 Sarcomatoid carcinomas and variants
- Chapter 33 Mesenchymal and miscellaneous neoplasms
- Chapter 34 Pulmonary lymphoproliferative diseases
- Chapter 35 Metastases involving the lungs
- Chapter 36 Diseases of the pleura
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Cancer staging refers to the classification of patients based on the anatomic extent of disease. The Tumor Node Metastasis (TNM) classification evolved from the work of Pierre Denoix in the 1940s and has since been adopted as the reference standard by the International Union Against Cancer (Union Internationale Contre le Cancer – UICC) and the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). These two bodies collaborate to ensure a uniform TNM classification. The most recent classification, the seventh edition, was published in 2009. This revision contains the first changes since the 1997 fifth edition. The changes were based upon proposals submitted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). The seventh edition will be used throughout this chapter, with reference to the sixth edition where necessary to highlight important changes.
The TNM Classification fulfills a number of related objectives, namely:
To aid the clinician in the planning of treatment.
To give some indication of prognosis.
To assist in evaluation of the results of treatment.
To facilitate the exchange of information between treatment centers.
To contribute to the continuing investigation of human cancer.
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- Spencer's Pathology of the Lung , pp. 1004 - 1014Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000