STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the launch of the seventh edition of AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. The manual has been prepared by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) in collaboration with its member organisations, including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the American College of Physicians. These organisations work with the AJCC in the promotion of staging at the time of diagnosis in order to achieve better patient outcomes.
It has been observed that physicians and healthcare professionals need a tool to facilitate the uniform description and reporting of cancer. Proper staging is essential to determine appropriate treatment, evaluate results of management and clinical trials and to serve as the standard for local, regional and international reporting on cancer incidence and outcomes. The latest edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual seeks to bring together the relevant, evidence-based criteria for staging of cancer for 52 anatomic primary sites.
The AJCC Cancer Staging Manual is projected as the ‘home base’ product, which includes the rationale and rules for staging; the background explanation of the changes between the sixth and seventh editions; the definitions of tumour, lymph node involvement and metastasis; and stage groupings and histologic grade for 52 primary cancer sites. The manual’s spin-off products are the AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook, which features all the staging information offered in the Manual in a pocket-size book; and the AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas, offering a highly visual representation with hundreds of additional illustrations. The AJCC e-Staging Tool, a web-based staging application designed to help clinicians stage patients in the clinical setting from desktop, laptop or handheld device, will be launched next month.
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