Introduction Revisions to the TNM stage classifications for lung cancer, informed by the
international database (N= 94,708) of the International Association for the Study of Lung …

Introduction Stage classification provides a consistent language to describe the anatomic
extent of disease and is therefore a critical tool in caring for patients. The Staging and …

In the past 20 years, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has
been working on a global project to revise the TNM classification of lung cancer. The first …

The analyses of the retrospective database of the International Association for the Study of
Lung Cancer (IASLC), consisting of more than 81,000 evaluable patients diagnosed with …

Abstract The IASLC Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee has collected a new
database of 94,708 cases donated from 35 sources in 16 countries around the globe. This …

Introduction We performed a validation study at our institution, the International Union
Against Cancer (Union for International Cancer Control latest version of TNM Classification …

Introduction In 1996, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
launched a worldwide TNM staging project to inform the next edition (seventh) of the TNM …

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has conducted an
extensive initiative to inform the revision of the lung cancer staging system. This involved …

Introduction: An international database was collected to inform the 8 th edition of the
anatomic classification of lung cancer. The present analyses concern its primary tumor (T) …

Revisions in stage grouping of the TNM subsets (T= primary tumor, N= regional lymph
nodes, M= distant metastasis) in the International System for Staging Lung Cancer have …