TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Esophageal Cancer Staging A1 - Ahmad, Usman A1 - Tang, Andrew A1 - Rice, Thomas W. A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Burt, Bryan M. A2 - Groth, Shawn S. A2 - Loor, Gabriel A2 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e AB - The assigned stage of a cancer is the most objective and universally recognized identifying feature that is used to guide treatment, assess response, and determine prognosis. The more reflective the assigned stage is of the underlying tumor behavior, the better it can meet these goals. Tumor characteristics and behavior change over the course of time and treatments. A perfect staging system would be reflective of tumor behavior at any time during the life of the tumor. Every new iteration of a staging system attempts to meet these goals. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170405992 ER -