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ductal carcinoma...is it T1b, N0? - help

Posted: Nov 04, 2009

ductal carcinoma...is it T1b, N0? - MTME

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54 The American Association for Medical Transcription

TNM staging system for malignant tumors
System for staging malignant tumors, developed by the American Joint
Committee on Cancer and the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer.
T tumor size or involvement
N regional lymph node involvement
M extent of metastasis
Write TNM expressions with arabic numerals on the line and a space after
each number.
T2 N1 M1
T4 N3 M1
Letters and symbols following the letters T, N, and M:
X means assessment cannot be done.
0 (zero) indicates no evidence found.
Numbers indicate increasing evidence of the characteristics represented by
those letters.
Tis indicates tumor in situ.
Tis N0 M0
The TNM system criteria for defining cancer stages vary according to
the type of cancer. Thus a stage II cancer of one type may be defined as
T1 N0 M0, while one of another type may be defined as T2 N1 M0.
Staging indicators are used along with TNM criteria to define cancers and
assess stages. These are expressed with capital letters and arabic numerals.
grade GX, G1, G2, G3, G4
host performance H0, H1, H2, H3, H4
lymphatic invasion LX, L0, L1, L2
residual tumor RX, R0, R1, R2
scleral invasion SX, S0, S1, S2
venous invasion VX, V0, V1, V2
prefixes
Lowercase prefixes on the line with TNM and other symbols indicate
criteria used to describe and stage the tumor, e.g., cTNM, aT2.
letter determining criteria
a autopsy staging
c clinical classification
p pathological classification
r retreatment classification
y, yp classification during or following treatment with multiple
modalities

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