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Staging systems: Is there a surgical staging and a medical one? A surgeon’s perspective

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  • Hepatocellular carcinoma: Eastern and Western experiences
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Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

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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.

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  1. Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 301402, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard; Unit 444, Houston, TX, 77230-1402, USA

    Carlo M. Contreras & Jean-Nicolas Vauthey

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Contreras, C.M., Vauthey, JN. Staging systems: Is there a surgical staging and a medical one? A surgeon’s perspective. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci 17, 438–439 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00534-009-0243-y

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