TY - JOUR
T1 - The new (Version 9) American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor, node, metastasis staging for cervical cancer
AU - Olawaiye, Alexander B.
AU - Baker, Thomas P.
AU - Washington, M. Kay
AU - Mutch, David G.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the following: American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staff Donna Gress, Elaine Alexander, Chantel Ellis, and Martin Madera for their hard work toward launching version 9 of the TNM staging system; all members of the AJCC Executive Council and the AJCC Female Reproductive Panel, without whom this work would not have been possible; and the National Cancer Data Base management staff Bryan E. Palis and Amanda Browner.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Cancer Society
PY - 2021/7/1
Y1 - 2021/7/1
N2 - The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) staging for all cancer sites has been periodically updated as a published manual for many years. The last update, the eighth edition AJCC Cancer Staging Manual went into use on January 1, 2018. The AJCC has since restructured and updated its processes, and all AJCC staging-related data are now housed on its new application programming interface. Consequently, the next AJCC TNM staging update, AJCC version 9 TNM staging, will be published electronically and will be released chapter by chapter. The first chapter of version 9 AJCC TNM staging is the updated cervical cancer staging, which is now published. This article highlights the changes to the AJCC TNM cervical cancer staging; these changes align with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging. The most important of the changes are: 1) the incorporation of imaging and surgical findings, 2) the elimination of lateral spread from T1a, 3) the addition of a subcategory to T1b (T1b3), and 4) histopathology is updated to reflect human papillomavirus-associated and human papillomavirus-independent carcinomas.
AB - The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) staging for all cancer sites has been periodically updated as a published manual for many years. The last update, the eighth edition AJCC Cancer Staging Manual went into use on January 1, 2018. The AJCC has since restructured and updated its processes, and all AJCC staging-related data are now housed on its new application programming interface. Consequently, the next AJCC TNM staging update, AJCC version 9 TNM staging, will be published electronically and will be released chapter by chapter. The first chapter of version 9 AJCC TNM staging is the updated cervical cancer staging, which is now published. This article highlights the changes to the AJCC TNM cervical cancer staging; these changes align with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging. The most important of the changes are: 1) the incorporation of imaging and surgical findings, 2) the elimination of lateral spread from T1a, 3) the addition of a subcategory to T1b (T1b3), and 4) histopathology is updated to reflect human papillomavirus-associated and human papillomavirus-independent carcinomas.
KW - American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)
KW - cervix
KW - staging
KW - version 9
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103388273&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3322/caac.21663
DO - 10.3322/caac.21663
M3 - Article
C2 - 33784415
AN - SCOPUS:85103388273
SN - 0007-9235
VL - 71
SP - 287
EP - 298
JO - CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians
JF - CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians
IS - 4
ER -