Cancer Medicine, 5th
Edition
Section 27: Neoplasms of the Head and Neck –
86. Head and Neck Cancer (and Salivary Gland specific) –
Staging Excerpt
Bast, Robert C.; Kufe, Donald W.; Pollock, Raphael E.; Weichselbaum,
Ralph R.;
Holland, James F.; Frei, Emil, editors.
Publisher: Canada: BC Decker Inc;
Copyright 2000. [5th edition.]
Courtesy PubMed/NCBI
Natural History and Treatment by Site: Salivary Gland
Staging
Recently, the AJCC and the UICC agreed to changes in the staging system
for salivary gland tumors to bring the two schema into agreement. T-stage
criteria are reproduced in Table 86.21, along with stage groupings. The
N- and M-stage criteria are the same as for the more common HNSCCs.
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