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IASLC Sgat Ing Comm Ittee a tr ICle The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: The New Database to Inform the Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification of Lung Cancer Ramón Rami-Porta, MD, FETCS,*† Vanessa Bolejack, MPH,‡ Dorothy J. Giroux, MS,‡ Kari Chansky, MS,‡ John Crowley, PhD,‡ Hisao Asamura, MD,§ Peter Goldstraw, MBChB, FRCS,║ on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee, Advisory Board Members and Participating Institutions¶ Key Words: Lung cancer, Lung cancer databases, Lung cancer Abstract: The analyses of the retrospective database of the staging, Nonsmall cell lung cancer, Small cell lung cancer, TNM International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), classification. consisting of more than 81,000 evaluable patients diagnosed with lung cancer between 1990 and 2000, formed the basis of recom- (J Thorac Oncol. 2014;9: 1618–1624) mendations to the Union for International Cancer Control and the American Joint Committee on Cancer for the revision of the sixth edition of the tumor, node, and metastasis (TNM) classification of he call for action launched during the International lung cancer. However, despite the large number of patients, not all TWorkshop on Intrathoracic Staging, that took place in descriptors could be validated. This prompted a new collection of 1 London, United Kingdom, in October 1996 to revise
Journal of Thoracic Oncology – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Nov 1, 2014
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