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Published on: May 18, 2020
The new TNM-based staging of breast cancer
Gábor Cserni1,2, Ewa Chmielik3, Bálint Cserni4
1Department of Pathology, Bács-Kiskun County Teaching Hospital, Nyíri út 38, Kecskemét, H-6000, Hungary. cserni@freemail.hu.
Abstract:
This review describes the changes that have been implemented in the Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM)-based staging of breast cancers by the new, 8th editions of the relevant Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) publications. After giving a background for TNM being the common language of cancer staging and related activities like cancer treatment and registration, it summarizes not only the changes but reviews some highlights important for pathologists, and lists and comments on the differences between the publications and diagnostic practices based on them. A section is dedicated to the prognostic stages of breast carcinomas introduced in the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, but not mentioned in the UICC TNM classification of malignant tumors. A few issues that are not appropriately covered by TNM according to the authors' view (e.g., multifocal tumors, larger lymph node metastases identified by molecular methods, the heterogeneous prognosis of M1-defined stage IV disease) close the review with the final thoughts raising the vision of a potential loss of the common staging language.
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