The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has conducted an extensive initiative to inform the revision of the lung cancer staging system. This involved development of an international database along with extensive analysis of a large population of patients and their prognoses. This article reviews the recommendations of the IASLC International Staging Committee for the ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to determine whether the prognosis can be more precisely gauged by the revised 6th AJCC staging system and if this is suitable for Korean colorectal cancer patients, and especially for those patients in the Youngdong district. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between September 1996 and December 2003, 365 patients with histologically confirmed colorectal cancer were a...

The prognosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) remains poor whereas predictive models for survival prediction in ICC patients following curative resection are limited. Herein, we established a novel inflammation-based score derived from preoperative albumin to gamma-glutamyltransferase ratio (AGR) and evaluated its prognostic significance in ICC patients underwent curative resection. Pr...

We are delighted to hear that our manuscript, “The influence of nativity and neighborhoods on breast cancer stage at diagnosis and survival among California Hispanic women” (2127227736362598), has been provisionally accepted for publication in BMC Cancer. We have further revised the manuscript in response to the comments raised by Reviewer 2. Below is a response to each of the comments raised b...

Imaging modalities have become increasingly significant in the treatment of laryngeal cancer. The ability of CT and MR imaging to reveal pathologic conditions that are undetectable by palpation or endoscopy has led to the development of several imaging-based systems of anatomic classification and tumor staging. This article provides an up-to-date review of the radiographic evaluation of the nor...

The tumour-node metastasis (TNM) classification system is anatomically based. We investigated whether the addition of simple physiological variables, age and body mass index (BMI), would affect survival curves, i.e. a composite anatomical and physiological staging system. We retrospectively analysed a prospectively validated thoracic surgery database (n = 1981). Cox multivariate analysis was pe...

PURPOSE Immunosuppression is a characteristic of cancer recurrence after curative resection. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NL ratio) in peripheral blood is associated with immune function. However, it is not clear whether the postoperative NL ratio is a predictor for cancer relapse after resection. Thus, we investigated the effectiveness of the short-term postoperative NL ratio in the pre...

There are a number of factors that should be taken into consideration when predicting the outcomes and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma. Four of the most important factors in determining survival are the severity of the accompanying liver disease, tumor size and number, extension of the tumor into other structures, and presence of metastases. The most common and widely accepted tumor stagi...

BACKGROUND: To explore contextual effects and to test for interactions, this study examined how breast cancer stage at diagnosis among U.S. women related to individual- and county-level (contextual) variables associated with access to health care and socioeconomic status. METHODS: Individual-level incidence data were obtained from the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the Surveil...

Accurate lymph node staging of lung cancer is crucial in determining optimal treatment plans and predicting patient outcome. Currently used lymph node maps have been reconciled to the internationally accepted International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) map published in the seventh edition of TNM classification system of malignant tumours. This article provides computed tomogr...