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Orbital Cancer Staging

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In the twenty-first century, cancer staging is essential for clinical management to decrease tumor morbidity and reduce patient mortality. Staging serves as a common scientific language within which statistically significant answers can be obtained about diagnostic and therapeutic choices. This chapter details the staging process of orbital malignancies. Clinical (cTNM), Pathologic (pTNM), Retreatment (rTNM), and Autopsy (aTNM) classifications are reviewed. Herein, we explain why prospective data collection is required to continuously evolve staging and how staging will accelerate research, save vision and save lives.

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Acknowledgments

  The members of the 7th Edition, AJCC–UICC Ophthalmic Oncology Task Force* included the following:

Col. Darryl J. Ainbinder, MD; Daniel M. Albert, MD, MS; James O. Armitage, MD; James J. Augsburger, MD; Nikolas E. Bechrakis, MD; Major John H. Boden, MD; Patricia Che’vez-Barrios, MD; Sarah E. Coupland, MBBS, PhD, FRCPath; Bertil Damato, MD, PhD; Laurence Desjardins, MD; Ralph C. Eagle, MD; Deepak P. Edward, MD; Bita Esmaeli, MD; Paul T. Finger, MD (Chair); James C. Fleming, MD; Brenda L. Gallie, MD; Dan S. Gombos, MD; Jean-Daniel Grange, MD; Hans E. Grossniklaus, MD, MBA; Barrett G. Haik, MD; Col. John B. Halligan, MD; Santosh Hanovar, MD; J. William Harbour, MD; George J. Harocopos, MD; Leonard M. Holbach, MD; John L. Hungerford, MD; Martine J. Jager, MD, PhD; Zeynel A. Karcioglu, MD; Tero Kivela, MD; Emma Kujala, MD; Ashwin C. Mallipatna, MBBS; Col Robert A. Mazzoli, MD; Hugh McGowan, MD; Tatyana Milman, MD; A. Linn Murphree, MD; Tim G. Murray, MD, MBA; Jack Rootman, MD, FRCS; Didi de Wolff-Rouendaal, MD, PhD; Andrew P. Schachat, MD; Stefan Seregard, MD; E. Rand Simpson, MD; Arun D. Singh, MD; Valerie A. White, MD, MHSc; Matthew W. Wilson, MD; Christian W. Wittekind, MD; and Guopei Yu, MD, MPH.

The AJCC–UICC Ophthalmic Oncology Task Force was supported by the American College of Surgeons, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), the Union International for Cancer Control (UICC), Springer, and The Eye Cancer Foundation (http://eyecancerfoundation.net). Staging forms are reproduced with the permission of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), Chicago. The original source for this material is the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th edition, 2009, published by Springer, New York).

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  1. The New York Eye Cancer Center, Ocular Tumor Services, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mt. Sinai and New York University School of Medicine, 115 East 61st Street #5B, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Paul T. Finger M.D.

  2. Hamilton Eye Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Barrett Haik M.D.

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Finger, P.T., Haik, B. (2015). Orbital Cancer Staging. In: Karcioglu, Z. (eds) Orbital Tumors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1510-1_30

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