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Editorial
. 2017 Jun;27(6):751-756.
doi: 10.1089/thy.2017.0102. Epub 2017 May 19.

Updated American Joint Committee on Cancer/Tumor-Node-Metastasis Staging System for Differentiated and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer (Eighth Edition): What Changed and Why?

R Michael Tuttle  1 , Bryan Haugen  2 , Nancy D Perrier  3
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Editorial

Updated American Joint Committee on Cancer/Tumor-Node-Metastasis Staging System for Differentiated and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer (Eighth Edition): What Changed and Why?

R Michael Tuttle et al. Thyroid. 2017 Jun.
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have nothing to disclose.

Figures

<b>FIG. 1.</b>
FIG. 1.
Eighth edition definitions for primary tumor (T), lymph node status (N), and distant metastasis (M). Changes from the seventh edition are marked with an asterisk (see text for descriptions).
<b>FIG. 2.</b>
FIG. 2.
Eighth edition American Joint Committee on Cancer prognostic stage groups for differentiated thyroid cancer (top panel) and anaplastic thyroid cancer (bottom panel).
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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