The only potentially curative options for gastric cancer involve endoscopic or surgical resection, with adjunctive systemic ...

Small intestine cancer occurs when abnormal cells grow in the tissues of the small bowel, the long tube that connects your ...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung is linked to smoking and requires early detection and accurate staging for effective treatment. Diagnosis involves imaging and biopsy, with the TNM system used to ...

Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is notoriously difficult to treat due to its aggressive nature and limited prognostic tools. While the traditional staging systems, such as the TNM ...

The extent of the bladder cancer — how far it has spread — matters. Your care team needs to know if your cancer sits on or in the first lining of your bladder (non-muscle invasive), if it goes into ...

Tumor deposits are a significant prognostic factor in colorectal cancer, yet underutilized in N-staging. Ten novel models incorporating tumor deposits showed improved prognostic performance over the ...

Objective: To evaluate and compare the clinical value of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the preoperative TNM staging of esophageal carcinoma. Results: For T-stage, ...

Medically reviewed by Archana Sharma, DO Uterine cancer is staged using the FIGO and TNM systems based on tumor size, lymph ...

Oropharyngeal cancer is the most common type of throat cancer. After your diagnosis, you will learn the stage of the cancer. The stage lets you know how far, if at all, the cancer has spread from the ...

Background: To improve the risk stratification of patients with heart failure (HF), we proposed a new staging system named HLM, analogous to TNM classification used in oncology, which refers to heart ...