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Carlo M Contreras1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey
1Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, PO Box 301402, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard Unit 444, Houston, TX 77230-1402, USA. cmcontre@mdanderson.org
Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
|November 3, 2009
Abstract:
From a surgeon's perspective, the AJCC 6th edition is the staging system of choice due to its simplified clinicopathologic schema, discriminatory accuracy, extensive external validation, widespread geographic reproducibility, and applicability to both the resection and transplantation patient population with hepatocellular carcinoma.