Melanoma staging: Evidence-based changes in the American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition cancer staging manual

JE Gershenwald; RA Scolyer; KR Hess; VK Sondak; GV Long; MI Ross; AJ Lazar; MB Faries; JM Kirkwood; GA McArthur; LE Haydu; AMM Eggermont; KT Flaherty; CM Balch; JF Thompson; MB Atkins; RL Barnhill; KY Bilimoria; AC Buzaid; DR Byrd; AJ Cochran; DE Elder; C Garbe; JM Gardner; PA Gimotty; AC Halpern; TM Johnson; AWM Lee; MC Mihm; VG Prieto; AJ Sober; SL Wong; KA Delman; M Santinami; A Maurichi; E Nagore; DE Gyorki; M Henderson; AJ Stratigos; H Gogas; CR Rossi; A Sommariva

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Melanoma staging: Evidence-based changes in the American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition cancer staging manual

JE Gershenwald, RA Scolyer, KR Hess, VK Sondak, GV Long, MI Ross, AJ Lazar, MB Faries, JM Kirkwood, GA McArthur, LE Haydu, AMM Eggermont, KT Flaherty, CM Balch, JF Thompson, MB Atkins, RL Barnhill, KY Bilimoria, AC Buzaid, DR Byrd Show all

CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians | WILEY | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.3322/caac.21409

Abstract

Answer questions and earn CME/CNE. To update the melanoma staging system of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) a large database was assembled comprising >46,000 patients from 10 centers worldwide with stages I, II, and III melanoma diagnosed since 1998. Based on analyses of this new database, the existing seventh edition AJCC stage IV database, and contemporary clinical trial data, the AJCC Melanoma Expert Panel introduced several important changes to the Tumor, Nodes, Metastasis (TNM) classification and stage grouping criteria. Key changes in the eighth edition AJCC Cancer Staging Manual include: 1) tumor thickness measurements to be recorded to the nearest 0.1 mm, not 0.01 mm; 2..

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