TY - BOOK ED - American Joint Committee on Cancer TI - AJCC Cancer Staging Manual SN - 3319406175 PY - 2017/// CY - Switzerland PB - Springer KW - Cancer N1 - General information on cancer staging and end-results reporting; Head and neck; Upper gastrointestinal tract; Lower gastrointestinal tract; Hepatobiliary system; Neuroendocrine tumors; Thorax; Bone; Soft tissue sarcoma; Skin; Breast; Female reproductive organs; Male genital organs; Urinary tract; Ophthalmic sites; Central nervous system; Endocrine system; Hematologic malignancies N2 - Significantly expanded and developed by international disease site expert panels, the Eighth Edition AJCC Cancer Staging Manual brings together all the currently available knowledge on staging of cancer at various anatomic sites. In this edition, evidence-based TNM staging is supplemented, as appropriate, by selected molecular markers and newly acquired insights into the molecular underpinnings of cancer. This edition features 12 entirely new staging systems, a wide range of changed or new staging definitions, and a refined emphasis on a personalized-medicine approach ER -