Journal Reviews

Impact of the updated cancer staging system on HPV-positive disease

1 July 2018 | | American Joint Committee on Cancer, National Cancer Data Base, human papillomavirus, oropharyngeal cancer, staging

The AJCC cancer staging manual was updated in 2017 (8th edition). It is used in the MDT setting for planning treatment and assessing prognosis for individual patients, and is also widely used internationally in clinical trials. Unlike previous iterations of...