Manual for staging of cancer
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Manual for staging of cancer
Lippincott, c1992
4th ed
- pbk.
- Other Title
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Staging of cancer
Available at 10 libraries
Note
"Prepared and published through the support of American Cancer Society grant CCG 99BB and grant number CA 11606-17 awarded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health."
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume answers these important questions, bringing together all of the information on the staging of cancer developed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer in co-operation with the TNM Committee of the International Union Against Cancer. It puts the reliable and consistent guidelines you need into one comprehensive resource, providing updated staging recommendations and improved staging forms.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 General information on cancer staging and end-results reporting: purposes and principles of staging
- reporting of cancer survival and end results. Part 2 Staging of cancer at specific anatomic sites: lip and oral cavity, pharynx (including base of tongue, soft palate, and uvula)
- larynx
- maxillary sinus
- salivary glands (including parotid, submandibular, and sublingual), thyroid gland
- digestive system sites - oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon and rectum, anal canal, liver (including intrahepatic bile ducts), gallbladder, extrahepatic bile ducts, ampulla of vater, exocrine
- thorax - lung, pleural mesothelioma
- musculoskeletal sites - bone, soft tissue, carcinoma of the skin (excluding eyelid, vulva, and penis), melanoma of the skin (excluding eyelid), breast
- gynaecologic sites - cervix uteri, corpus uteri, ovary, vagina, vulva
- genitourinary sites - prostate, testis, penis, urinary bladder, kidney, renal pelvis and ureter, urethra
- ophthalmic tumours - carcinoma of the eyelid, melanoma of the eyelid, carcinoma of the conjunctiva, melanoma of the conjunctiva, melanoma of the uvea, retinoblastoma, sarcoma of the orbit, carcinoma of the lacrimal gland, brain
- lymphomas - Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodkin's lymphoma
- paediatric cancers - nephroblastoma (Wilms' tumour), neuroblastoma, soft-tissue sarcoma - paediatric. Part 3 Personnel of the american joint committee on cancer.
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