The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Background Data and Proposed Criteria to Distinguish Separate Primary Lung Cancers from Metastatic Foci in Patients with Two Lung Tumors in the Forthcoming Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer.

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It can be difficult to distinguish between a second primary and a metastasis in patients with lung cancer who have more than one pulmonary site of cancer.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Thorac Oncol

Title: Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1556-1380

ISSN (Print): 1556-0864

Publication date (Electronic): May 2016

Volume: 11

Issue: 5

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[1 ] Department of Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address: frank.detterbeck@yale.edu.

[2 ] Department of Pathology, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.

[3 ] Department of Histopathology, Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Foundation Trust and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.

[4 ] Respiratory Medicine Service, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.

[5 ] Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[6 ] Department of Pathology, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

[7 ] Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

[8 ] Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

[9 ] Department of Thoracic Surgery, New York University, New York, New York.

[10 ] Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

[11 ] Thoracic Surgery Service, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

[12 ] Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

[13 ] Thoracic Surgery Service, Hospital Universitari Mutua Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain; Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES) Lung Cancer Group, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.

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Publisher Item ID: S1556-0864(16)00437-8

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2016.01.025

PubMed ID: 26944304

SO-VID: 03203361-750a-47c8-bbc5-36e2f52ff5e9

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Keywords: Lung cancer,Lung cancer staging,Multiple tumors,Non–small cell lung cancer,TNM classification

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Keywords: Lung cancer, Lung cancer staging, Multiple tumors, Non–small cell lung cancer, TNM classification

The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Background Data and Proposed Criteria to Distinguish Separate Primary Lung Cancers from Metastatic Foci in Patients with Two Lung Tumors in the Forthcoming Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer.

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