Wentao Fang, Nicolas Girard, Vanessa Cilento, Emily Goren, Daniel Dibaba, Enrico Ruffini, Usman Ahmad, Sarit Appel, Andrea Bille, Souheil Boubia, Cecilia Brambilla, Ayten Kayi Cangir, Frank Detterbeck, Conrad Falkson, Pier Luigi Filosso, Giuseppe Giaccone, Francesco Guerrera, James Huang, Maurizio Infante, Dong Kwan Kim, Marco Lucchi, Mirella Marino, Edith M Marom, Andrew G Nicholson, Meinoshin Okumura, Ramon Rami-Porta, Andreas Rimner, Charles B Simone, Hisao Asamura
INTRODUCTION: Stage classification is an important underpinning of management in patients with cancer, and rests on a combination of three components: T for tumor extent, N for nodal involvement, and M for distant metastases. This article details the revision of the N and the M components of thymic epithelial tumors for the 9th edition of the TNM classification of malignant tumors proposed by the Thymic Domain of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee...
September 27, 2023: Journal of Thoracic Oncology