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Original Article IASLC Staging Committee Article
The IASLC Mesothelioma Staging Project: Proposals for Revisions of the N Descriptors in the Forthcoming Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification for Pleural Mesothelioma
Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Vol. 11Issue 12p2100–2111Published online: September 26, 2016
- David Rice
- Kari Chansky
- Anna Nowak
- Harvey Pass
- Hedy Kindler
- Lynn Shemanski
- and others
Cited in Scopus: 83
Nodal categories for malignant pleural mesothelioma are derived from the lung cancer staging system and have not been adequately validated. The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer developed a multinational database to generate evidence-based recommendations to inform the eighth edition of the TNM classification of malignant pleural mesothelioma.