ReviewTranslational gastroenterology and hepatology2017
N staging system: tumor-node-metastasis and future perspectives.
Review in Translational gastroenterology and hepatology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prognostic Nutritional Index and Cancer Prognostic Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses of Observational Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
- Preoperative electrolyte-based metabolic biomarkers for prognostic assessment in gastric cancer: a multicenter study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Beyond traditional staging system: Tumor-Node-Metastasis-Blood staging system improves treatment decisions and prognostic stratification in cancer patients.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Investigation of the Effects of B7H4 (rs10754339 A>G) Gene Polymorphism and Serum Level on Breast Cancer Susceptibility.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025Article
- Association of HOTAIR gene rs920778 (C > T) and rs4759314 (A > G) polymorphism with breast cancer in Egyptian women.Molecular biology reports · 2023Article
- Association of GSTP1 p.Ile105Val (rs1695, c.313A > G) Variant with the Risk of Breast Carcinoma among Egyptian Women.Biochemical genetics · 2021Article
- HOXC10 is significantly overexpressed in colorectal cancer.Biomedical reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
The correct staging of disease, with an exact definition of the extent of cancer at the diagnosis, is crucial in the planning of a specific treatment and in the assessment of real chances of cure. Cancer staging systems are expected to be accurate in the description of the severity of a patient's tumor on the basis of the extent of the primary neoplasm and of its spread, thus giving clinician tools to estimate prognosis and providing objective parameters to compare groups of patients in clinical studies. This last point is of wide importance in evaluating successful treatment strategies in oncology, and this is one of the issues that contributed to the development of stage-adapted therapies.
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