The AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and Handbook, prepared by the American Joint Committee on Cancer, are used by physicians and health care professionals throughout the world to facilitate the uniform description of neoplastic diseases. Proper classification and staging allow the physician to determine treatment more appropriately, evaluate results of management more reliably, and compare worldwide statistics reported from various institutions on a local, regional, and national basis more confidently. The fully revised and updated Sixth Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual brings together all currently available information on staging of cancer at various anatomic sites and incorporates newly acquired knowledge on the etiology and pathology of cancer. As more is learned, cancer staging must adapt to accommodate new information and this revised edition provides an evidence-based staging system based upon the established tenets of TNM classification. All of the TNM staging information included in the Sixth Edition is uniform between the AJCC and the UICC (International Union Against Cancer). Organized by disease site into 48 comprehensive chapters, the Sixth Edition features much-anticipated, major revisions to the chapters on melanoma and breast cancer. Numerous new line drawings illustrate key anatomic sites throughout the text. Additional user-friendly enhancements include: * a concise summary of changes in the TNM classification since the previous edition at the start of every chapter * color-coordinated page tabs for easy access between chapters * a CD-ROM packaged with each Manual containing printable copies of each of the book's 45 Staging Forms for both individual and institutional use * a comprehensive index The Sixth Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and Handbook remains the essential reference for oncologists, pathologists, surgeons, cancer registrars, and medical professionals worldwide to assure that all those taking care of cancer patients will be trained in the language of cancer staging
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This is not the stuff of bedroom reading, but it does exactly what it should: it covers one of the central tasks of oncology completely.
Why not buy the handbook? The difference is mainly in the extras: more discussion, the free checklists, the electronic forms, and a larger more readable format. Personally I find staging a desk reference situation and I think the manual is better suited: I really cant imagine using a valuable pocket for the manual. (For the electronically interested various versions exist for PDA). So whats in the book? Each anatomical site is introduced with a description of the changes from the 5th edition, the anatomy and regional lymphatics (where relevant) are described, and then the rules for staging are outlined. Summary tables, prognostic factors and a liberal reference section complete each site. There are predone checklists, diagrams and ICD codes to help those setting up registries all of which come in electronic form as well.
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Usefull book!,
This review is from: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (6th Edition) (Paperback)
This is a very usefull book for my job! And not too expensive for a medical dictionnary!
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vessel invasion cannot, residual tumor cannot, following initial multimodality therapy, tumor confluent, diagram primary tumor, pathologic metastatic specimen, pseudopapillary carcinoma, greatest basal diameter, positive internal mammary nodes, combined histologic grade, granular cell carcinoma, basal cell adenocarcinoma, pathologic stage grouping, surface papillary carcinoma, questionable stromal invasion, tumor deposit greater, lymphatic vessel invasion, primary tumor cannot, intralymphatic metastases, single ipsilateral lymph node, melanomalytic glaucoma, microscopic extraocular extension, large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, multiple primary tumors, spindle cell melanoma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clin Oncol, Ann Surg, Tis Carcinoma, Hospital Name, Physician's Signature Date, Head Neck, Address Patient Name, Surg Oncol, Bilateral Left Right, World Health Organization, United States, New York, Year Stage, Ann Arbor, Annual Report, Information Histopathologic Type, Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, Arch Pathol Lab Med, Arch Surg, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Categories Stages, Epid Biostat, Hum Pathol, Tla Tumor, Ann Thorac Surg New!
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vessel invasion cannot, residual tumor cannot, following initial multimodality therapy, tumor confluent, diagram primary tumor, pathologic metastatic specimen, pseudopapillary carcinoma, greatest basal diameter, positive internal mammary nodes, combined histologic grade, granular cell carcinoma, basal cell adenocarcinoma, pathologic stage grouping, surface papillary carcinoma, questionable stromal invasion, tumor deposit greater, lymphatic vessel invasion, primary tumor cannot, intralymphatic metastases, single ipsilateral lymph node, melanomalytic glaucoma, microscopic extraocular extension, large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, multiple primary tumors, spindle cell melanoma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clin Oncol, Ann Surg, Tis Carcinoma, Hospital Name, Physician's Signature Date, Head Neck, Address Patient Name, Surg Oncol, Bilateral Left Right, World Health Organization, United States, New York, Year Stage, Ann Arbor, Annual Report, Information Histopathologic Type, Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, Arch Pathol Lab Med, Arch Surg, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Categories Stages, Epid Biostat, Hum Pathol, Tla Tumor, Ann Thorac Surg New!
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- Health Sciences by James Anderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gastric Cancer by T. Sugimura on page 102
- New York, New York! (Baby-Sitters Club Super Special, No. 6) by Ann M. Martin in Back Matter
- Digestive System (Human Body Systems (Twenty-First Century)) by Robert Silverstein on page 161
- Liver Cancer, 1e by Kunio Okuda MD PhD on page 132
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