The predictive value of the 1997 American Joint Committee on Cancer stage classification in determining failure patterns in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Evaluation of the new American Joint Com

Evaluation of the new American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer classification of lymph node metastasis from gastric carcinoma in comparison with the Japanese classification

✍ Takashi Ichikura; Soichi Tomimatsu; Kazuhiko Uefuji; Mikihiko Kimura; Takefumi U 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 92 KB 👁 1 views

## BACKGROUND. A new system for the classification of gastric carcinoma, based on the number of metastatic lymph nodes, has been adopted by the current American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer (AJCC/UICC) TNM system (1997). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the