The IASLC/ITMIG Thymic Epithelial Tumors Staging Project: Proposals for the N and M Components for the Forthcoming (8th) Edition of the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors

TY - JOUR

T1 - The IASLC/ITMIG Thymic Epithelial Tumors Staging Project

T2 - Proposals for the N and M Components for the Forthcoming (8th) Edition of the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors

AU - Kondo, Kazuya

AU - Van Schil, Paul

AU - Detterbeck, Frank C

AU - Okumura, Meinoshin

AU - Stratton, Kelly

AU - Giroux, Dorothy

AU - Asamura, Hisao

AU - Crowley, John

AU - Falkson, Conrad

AU - Filosso, Pier Luigi

AU - Giaccone, Giuseppe

AU - Huang, James

AU - Kim, Jhingook

AU - Lucchi, Marco

AU - Marino, Mirella

AU - Marom, Edith M

AU - Nicholson, Andrew G

AU - Ruffini, Enrico

AU - Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee

AU - Daugaard, Gedske

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - 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).

AB - 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).

U2 - 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000291

DO - 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000291

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 25396316

SN - 1556-0864

VL - 9

SP - S81-87

JO - Journal of Thoracic Oncology

JF - Journal of Thoracic Oncology

IS - 9 Suppl 2

ER -