Head and Neck Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
Curr Oncol Rep. 2019 Apr 17;21(6):52. doi: 10.1007/s11912-019-0799-x.
The objectives of this article are to review the major changes in the staging of head and neck cancers and the rationale for the modifications.
Information gathered from various institutional reports lead to a better understanding of the clinical and biological behavior of head and neck tumors, resulting in distinct outcomes, which were used to update the staging system. This article reviews the changes in the staging of head and neck cancers published in the 8th edition of the AJCC/UICC TNM staging system.
本文的目的是回顾头颈部癌症分期的主要变化及其修改的原理。
从各种机构报告中收集的信息使人们对头颈部肿瘤的临床和生物学行为有了更好的理解,从而产生了不同的结果,这些结果被用来更新分期系统。本文回顾了第 8 版 AJCC/UICC TNM 分期系统中头颈部癌症分期的变化。