Title: Histologic Characteristics Enhance Predictive Value of American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging in Resectable Pancreas Cancer.
Authors: Helm, James; Centeno, Barbara A.; Coppola, Domenico; Melis, Marcovalerio; Lloyd, Mark; Park, Jong Y.; Dung-Tsa Chen; Malafa, Mokenge P.
Abstract: The article presents a study which investigates the potential for improving the predictive value of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) anatomic stage group. Result shows that survival was never worse with nodal metastases nor better with cancer. The authors conclude that a simple combination of tumor differentiation, and lymphatic invasion within the tumor predicts survival following pancreatectomy.
Subjects: CANCER invasiveness; TUMOR growth; METASTASIS; SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry); PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC surgery
Publication: Cancer (0008543X), 2009, Vol 115, Issue 18, p4080
ISSN: 0008-543X
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24503

Histologic Characteristics Enhance Predictive Value of American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging in Resectable Pancreas Cancer.

Helm, James; Centeno, Barbara A.; Coppola, Domenico; Melis, Marcovalerio; Lloyd, Mark; Park, Jong Y.; Dung-Tsa Chen; Malafa, Mokenge P.