7th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual: Esophagus and Esophagogastric Junction

Department ofSurgery, Thoracic Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NYIn previous editions of the American Joint Committeeon Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging Manual, esophagealcancer staging was neither data driven nor harmonized withstomach cancer. The new staging system presented in the7th edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, in con-trast, is data driven and harmonized.

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