[4] The new AJCC staging system for esophageal cancer seeks to optimize and incorporate epidemiologic and treatment data in order to provide better outcomes. This staging system will most likely ...

Unfortunately, however, the historic staging system is a suboptimal strategy for colon cancer because it does not map easily to the staging schema that is commonly used by clinicians. The system most ...

The current International Union Against Cancer tumor ... carcinoma of the esophagus who have undergone curative resection, the otherwise poor prognostic value of lymph-node staging is improved ...