New aspects in the staging of lung cancer. Prospective validation of the international union against cancer TNM classification

Bülzebruck, H.; K. Bopp, Raymond; Drings, P.; K Bauer, E; Kysa, S; Probsf, G.; van Kaick, G.; Müller, Klaus; Vogt‐Moykopf, I.

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19920901)70:5<1102::aid-cncr2820700514>3.0.co;2-5

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New aspects in the staging of lung cancer. Prospective validation of the international union against cancer TNM classification

Published in Cancer • Sep 1, 1992

Authors:

H. Bülzebruck

Raymond K. Bopp

P. Drings

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND METHODS: To validate the new TNM definitions for lung cancer (International Union Against Cancer [UICC] TNM classification, 4th edition, 1987), the data of 3823 patients were analyzed prospectively in terms of concordance between clinical (TNM) and pathologically confirmed classificat...

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Medicine

Concordance

Stage (stratigraphy)

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