Open AccessValidation of American Joint Committee on Cancer 8th edition of TNM staging in resected distal pancreatic cancer
Author(s) -
Feng Yin,
Saad Mohammed,
Hao Xie,
Lin Ji,
Christopher R. Jackson,
Bing Ren,
Cynthia Lawson,
Dipti M. Karamchandani,
Belen Quereda Bernabeu,
Wei Jiang,
Teena Dhir,
Richard Zheng,
Christopher W. Schultz,
Dongwei Zhang,
Courtney Thomas,
Xuchen Zhang,
Jinping Lai,
Michael H. Schild,
Xuefeng Zhang,
Xiuli Liu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2150-5349
DOI - 10.4292/wjgpt.v11.i2.25
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreatic cancer , cancer , cancer staging , radiology , oncology , nuclear medicine , pathology
In order to improve risk stratification and clinical management of the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has published its eighth edition staging manual. Some major changes have been introduced in the new staging system for both T and N categories. Given the rarity of resectable disease, distal pancreatic cancer is likely underrepresented in the published clinical studies, and how the impact of the staging system actually reflects on to clinical outcomes remain unclear.