Colon Cancer Staging Variable for SEER Data (1975-2003): A complex user-defined variable was defined to show colorectal cancer rates by AJCC stage, 5th Edition. The variable was created for use with ...

Background: The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM staging system defines the anatomical extent of disease and serves as a guide for treatment and prognosis. The favorable prognosis of p16+ ...

Patients who have stage IIB colon cancer have a worse 5-year survival (72.2%) than even node-positive stage IIIA (83.4%), suggesting that T4 lesions can be an even worse prognostic feature than ...

Tumor deposits negatively impact colon cancer survival, but the AJCC tumor, lymph node, and metastasis (TNM) staging system only considers these deposits in the absence of positive lymph nodes.

The recently updated 8th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual and the 5th edition of the WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumours provide a three-tiered grading ...

Stage I-II cases were restaged according to AJCC 8th edition criteria. Importantly, the 5-year MSS rates for Stages I, II and III in this cohort were similar (within ±1%) to those reported for ...