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...

Measuring is understanding: an unsupervised PROM clustering of CRS patients

1 November 2015 | | cluster analysis, phenotype, quality of life, sinusitis, staging

It has been clear for quite some years, at least for anyone dealing daily with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) patients, that CRS is an ‘umbrella’ diagnosis. There are significant differences between patients, including different demographic data, different endoscopic and radiographic images,...