RT Book, Section
A1 Richards, William G.
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Colson, Yolonda L.
A2 Jaklitsch, Michael T.
A2 Krasna, Mark J.
A2 Mentzer, Steven J.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1105845048
T1 Mesothelioma Staging
T2 Adult Chest Surgery, 2e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-178189-3
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105845048
RD 2024/04/23
AB Cancer  staging  systems  are  intended  to  assist  clinicians  to  categorize  patients  diagnosed  with  a  particular  malignancy  in  terms  of  their  life  expectancy  and  potential  response  to  specific  therapeutic  strategies.  Generally  speaking,  patients  categorized  as  early  stage  have  anatomically  localized  malignancy  associated  with  a  longer  life  expectancy  and  better  response  particularly  to  local  therapies  directed  at  the  primary  tumor  mass.  Late  stage  patients  are  presumed  to  have  metastatic  disease  indirectly  disseminated  to  distant  anatomical  sites  associated  with  shorter  life  expectancy  and  requiring  systemic  therapeutic  approaches.  A  staging  system  is  a  set  of  criteria  that  defines  such  categories  for  a  specific  malignancy.  Stage  categories  are  defined  in  anatomical  terms:  How  large  is  the  tumor  and  what  anatomical  structures  have  become  involved  with  (i.e.,  contain  invasive  proliferations  of)  tumor  cells?