TY - JOUR
T1 - The 7th Edition of the TNM Staging System for Lung Cancer. What the Radiologist Needs to Know
AU - Raptis, Constantine A.
AU - Bhalla, Sanjeev
PY - 2012/9/1
Y1 - 2012/9/1
N2 - Today lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, accounting for 28% of all cases. Radiologists play an important role in the assessment of this large number of patients. Given the important role imaging plays in the care of patients with lung cancer, it is incumbent on the radiologist to have a firm understanding of the TNM (tumor-node-metastasis) staging system used to describe the distribution of disease in lung cancer. This article reviews the 7th Edition of the TNM staging system for lung cancer and important changes from the 6th Edition.
AB - Today lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, accounting for 28% of all cases. Radiologists play an important role in the assessment of this large number of patients. Given the important role imaging plays in the care of patients with lung cancer, it is incumbent on the radiologist to have a firm understanding of the TNM (tumor-node-metastasis) staging system used to describe the distribution of disease in lung cancer. This article reviews the 7th Edition of the TNM staging system for lung cancer and important changes from the 6th Edition.
KW - International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
KW - Lung cancer
KW - Non-small cell lung cancer
KW - Small cell lung cancer
KW - Staging
KW - TNM staging
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rcl.2012.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.rcl.2012.06.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 22974778
AN - SCOPUS:84866174814
VL - 50
SP - 915
EP - 933
JO - Radiologic Clinics of North America
JF - Radiologic Clinics of North America
SN - 0033-8389
IS - 5
ER -