neoplasm stagingprostate-specific antigenprostatectomyprostatic neoplasmsPurpose We sought to independently validate the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8th edition prostate cancer (PCa) staging classification, which includes the elimination of pT2 subcategories and the reclassification of patients ...
Validation of the updated eighth edition of AJCC for prostate cancer: Removal of pT2 substages – Does extent of tumor involvement matter? BACKGROUND :Updates in the eighth edition of the AJCC prostate cancer staging manual include removal of the organ-confined (pT2) substages. METHODS :Retros...
Fine SW. Evolution in Prostate Cancer Staging: Pathology Updates From AJCC 8th Edition and Opportunities That Remain. Advances in anatomic pathology. 2018 Sep:25(5):327-332. doi: 10.1097/PAP.0000000000000200. Epub[PubMed PMID: 29870405] Level 3 (low-level) evidence [8] Albertsen PC, Hanley ...
Note: a. The most widely adopted staging system for PC is the TNM staging system established by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), using the 8th edition from 2017 [18]. b. The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) proposed a “miTNM” (molecular imaging TNM) classifi...
The 2017 8th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System (AJCC) did not change the staging system of bladder cancer (Bochner et al. 2017). Both AJCC and the College of American Pathologists (CAP), however, strongly recommends substaging of pT1 disease (College of American Pa...
For each specimen, the following features were recorded: GS and GG according to the 2014 ISUP/ 2016 WHO recommendations, pT-stage according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM 8th edition, surgical margin status and presence of cribriform architecture. Cribriform architecture ...
localized prostate cancerPSAsurvivalOriginal article Roach M III et al. (2007) Staging for prostate cancer: time to incorporate pretreatment prostate-specific antigen and Gleason score? Cancer 109: 213-220 SYNOPSIS BACKGROUND The current American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for ...
(CAP), and the AJCC TNM system. Covered topics include: (1) historical background; (2) 2005 and 2014 International Society of Urological Pathology Grading Conferences; (3) Description of Gleason patterns; (4) new approaches to display Gleason grades; (5) grading variants and variations of ...
There are two versions of this system published in parallel by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). The 8th edition (TNM8), the latest revision of both classifications published in 2016 includes major changes to the clinical staging of...
AJCC stage, differentiation, lymph node metastasis, and PSA have the potential to serve as prognostic bioindicators for prostate cancer patients. Patients with relatively high expression of DSCAM-AS1 have a higher mortality rate. All the above indicates that DSCA-AS1 has the potential to be a the...