Staging systems: Is there a surgical staging and a medical one? A surgeon's perspective.
From a surgeon's perspective, the AJCC 6th edition is the staging system of choice due to its simplified clinicopathologic schema, discriminatory accuracy, extensive external validation, widespread geographic reproducibility, and applicability to both the resection and transplantation patient population with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Contreras
Carlo M
CM
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, PO Box 301402, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard Unit 444, Houston, TX 77230-1402, USA. cmcontre@mdanderson.org
Vauthey
Jean-Nicolas
JN
D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results