title: [Use of TNM classification in clinical practice].
abstract: We have retrospectively evaluated the use of TNM in patients referred to our clinic for radiation treatment between 1979 and 1990. The percentage of TX-cases (unknown and not exactly classified primaries) decreased from 22% in 1979 to 3% in 1990 and was lowest in tumors treated according to well-defined treatment protocols (e.g. head and neck tumors, breast cancer).
authors.affiliation: Strahlentherapeutische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dunst
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eberle
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Benutzung der TNM-Klassifikation in der klinischen Praxis.