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Cancer staging (CS) describes the extent and/or severity of a malignant neoplasia by the time of diagnosis (Edge and Compton, Ann Surg Oncol 17:1471–1474, 2010). It helps to stratify patients into groups that are prognostically and therapeutically similar (Greene and Sobin, J Surg Oncol 99:269–272, 2009). CS is based on knowledge of how cancer develops and spreads, as well as on prognostic factors. It is one of the most important tools used for planning treatment, determining prognosis, evaluating treatment outcomes and exchanging information between clinicians and centres around the world (Allen and MyiLibrary, Histopathology reporting guidelines for surgical cancer, 2006).
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Odashiro, A. (2013). Cancer Staging. In: Burnier, J., Burnier, Jr., M. (eds) Experimental and Clinical Metastasis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3685-0_20
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