A J Garvin, R Simon, R C Young, V T DeVita, C W Berard
An essential purpose of a pathologic classification of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas is to supply guidance in the clinical management of patients. Ideally, an optimal subclassification should also be scientifically accurate, highly reproducible, and readily teachable. Such a system, when used in conjunction with uniform staging, should enable relatively homogeneous groups of patients to be defined. In the present study, we have evaluated four new systems for possible additions to the traditional Rappaport classifcation...
September 1980: Seminars in Oncology