American Joint Committee on Cancer: Endocrine Surgery

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Changes in the 8th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual represent a departure from previous editions. The charge of the new committees was to identify key prognostic indicators and incorporate these factors into the staging schemata. As a result, the 8th edition manual represents a stronger and more clinically relevant staging and sets a backdrop for comprehensive, personalized, precision medicine. This version creates a lattice for future expansions while maintaining traditional parameters of anatomic extent of disease. The hours of discussion, intense analysis to resolve controversies, data-seeking methods, and expertise cannot be quantified. We are hopeful that this paradigm will prescribe better care for cancer patients. …