Clark Bonham
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Is the pathologic TNM staging system for patients with hepatoma predictive of outcome?
Cancer. 2000; (3): 538-43
The pathologic TNM (pTNM) staging system was designed to aid in determining the prognosis of cancer patients and in planning and evaluating their treatment. The current pTNM classification system was not found to be predictive for patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTx) in the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Therefore, the authors examined the current system to determine whether improvements would allow the development of a more predictive system.
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