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Esophageal Cancer Staging

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The concept of TNM cancer staging describing the anatomic extent of a cancer was developed by Pierre Denoix of the Cancer Institute Gustave-Roussy between 1943 and 1952. It is based on the principle that as the size of an untreated primary cancer (T) increases, first regional lymph node metastases (N) and then distant metastases (M) become more frequent. Although introduced in 1953, it was not until 1968 that the first cancer staging manual was published by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and it included esophageal cancer.

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  1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue/Desk JJ4-1, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Thomas William Rice MD

  2. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, 31599 Trillium Trail, Pepper Pike, OH, 44124, USA

    Thomas William Rice MD

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  1. Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Nabil F. Saba

  2. Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Bassel F. El-Rayes

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Rice, T.W. (2015). Esophageal Cancer Staging. In: Saba, N., El-Rayes, B. (eds) Esophageal Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20068-2_6

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