Notes in AJCC Ch 1 - 4

To Subscribe, use this Key

Status	Last Update	Fields
Published	10/10/2024	What is a key factor at time of diagnosis that defines prognosis and helps determine tx?
Published	09/27/2024	_____________ is necessary to eval results of txs and clinical trials
Published	09/27/2024	Staging - anatomic extent of cancer for tumor
Published	09/27/2024	Staging - LNs
Published	09/27/2024	Staging - distant mets
Published	09/27/2024	_______ is only used to describe aggregate info of TNM, not individual categories
Published	09/27/2024	Based on pt hx, physical examination and imaging done BEFORE tx
Published	09/27/2024	____&___ are the most commonly used imaging modalities
Published	09/27/2024	Based on clinical stage info supplemented/modified by operative findings and pathological eval of resected specimen
Published	09/27/2024	Applicable when surgery performed BEFORE initiation of adjuvant radiation or systemic therapy
Published	09/27/2024	Stage determined AFTER tx for pts receiving systemic/radiation therapy alone or as component of initial tx
Published	09/27/2024	Staging at time of retx for recurrence or disease progression
Published	09/27/2024	Staging at time of cancers ID'd ONLY at autopsy
Published	09/27/2024	Size and/or extension of primary tumor is designated by _?
Published	09/27/2024	No info about T category for primary tumor, unknown or cannot be assessed
Published	09/27/2024	No evidence of primary tumor
Published	09/27/2024	Carcinoma in situ
Published	09/27/2024	Primary invasive tumor that can be increasing in size and/or extension
Published	09/27/2024	No info about N category for primary tumor, unknown or can't be assessed
Published	09/27/2024	No regional LN involvement w/ cancer
Published	09/27/2024	Evidence of regional LN(s) containing cancer w/ an increasing #, regional nodal group involvement and/or size of nodal mets cancer deposit
Published	09/27/2024	No evidence of distant mets
Published	09/27/2024	Distant mets
Published	10/10/2024	___ is used if information on a specific T or N category is unknown; such cases usually cannot be assigned a stage
Published	09/27/2024	The anatomic sites for cancer in the AJCC manual are listed by primary site topographical code # according to ____________________________?
Published	09/27/2024	Unless there is clinical or pathological evidence ofdistant metastases, the patient is classified as?
Published	09/27/2024	The term ___ used to denote carcinoma in situ and generally is considered to have no metastatic potential
Published	09/27/2024	The five stage classifications are ?
Published	09/27/2024	What Designation and Classification is used for all patients with cancer identified before treatment?It is composed of diagnostic workup information, …
Published	09/27/2024	What Designation and Classification is used for patients if surgery is the first definitive therapy
Published	09/27/2024	What designation is used for Posttheraty or post neoadjuvant therapy?
Published	09/27/2024	_____ is defined assystemic and/or radiation therapy given before surgery; primary radiation and/or systemic therapy is treatment given as definitive …
Published	09/27/2024	____is used for staging after primary systemic and/or radiation therapy, orafter neoadjuvant therapy and before planned surgery
Published	09/27/2024	___is used for staging after neoadjuvant therapy and planned postneoadjuvant therapy surgery.
Published	09/27/2024	Clinical classification is based on 2 periods of time?
Published	10/10/2024	lymph nodes with only ITCs usually are categorized as?
Published	09/27/2024	Lymph node micro-metastases are defined as?
Published	09/27/2024	___is defined as theextension of a nodal metastasis through thelymph node capsule into adjacent tissues
Published	09/27/2024	A regional node extending into a distantstructure or organ is categorized as ___
Published	09/27/2024	cM__? No distant metastasis
Published	09/27/2024	cM__? Clinical evidence ofdistant metastasis
Published	09/27/2024	pM__? Microscopic (pathologic) evidenceof distant metastasis
Published	09/27/2024	Unknown distant metastasis status
Published	09/27/2024	___is a regional lymph node that receives direct afferent lymphatic drainage from a primary tumor site may drain to more than one regional nodal basin…
Published	09/27/2024	What does ITC include?
Published	09/27/2024	Patients with clinical evidence of distant metastases by history, physical examination, imaging studies, orinvasive procedures, but without microscopi…
Published	09/27/2024	Patients in whom there is microscopic evidence confirming distant metastaticdisease are categorized as pathologically?
Published	09/27/2024	Patients with• CTCs (circulating tumor cell), or• DTCs (disseminated tumor cell) in organs and micrometastasis in bone marrow, detected by IHC or mole…
Published	09/27/2024	If there is clinical suspicion of distant metastases and a biopsy or excision does not confirm metastatic cancer, M is classified as clinically ?
Published	09/27/2024	____ is assigned for noninvasive papillary carcinoma in the renal pelvis and ureter, urinary bladder, and urethra.
Published	09/27/2024	An FNA or core needle biopsy is denoted by the ___ suffix
Published	09/27/2024	Cancers occurring in the same organ (including paired organs) that are identified with a diagnosis date ≤4 months apart, or that areidentified at the …
Published	09/27/2024	• are cancers of the same histology• occur in one organ
Published	09/27/2024	Cancers occurring at the same time in each of paired organs are staged as separate cancers
Published	09/27/2024	Timing for metachronous cancers
Published	09/27/2024	_____are primary cancers occurring at different times in the same or different organs
Published	09/27/2024	If physical examination, imaging, endoscopy,and other diagnostic procedures do notidentify a primary tumor:• the T category is assigned as __
Published	09/27/2024	If after surgical resection of a suspected primarytumor no evidence of tumor is identified, and itwas never identified on biopsy:• the T category is a…
Published	10/10/2024	___ is a qualitative assessment of the degree of differentiation of the tumor. It may reflect the extent to which a tumor resembles the normal tissue …
Published	09/27/2024	Structured report format for cancer is summarized into what general format?
Published	09/27/2024	Two basic survival procedures that enable one to determine overall group survival, taking into account both censored and uncensored observations, are …
Published	09/27/2024	___method involves dividing the total period duringwhich a group is observed into fixed intervals, usuallymonths or years___is the point on the timeax…
Published	09/27/2024	____ is the ratio of the observed survival to the expected survival for a group of people in the general population similar to the patient group with …
Published	09/27/2024	The most common statistical test that examines the whole pattern of differences between survival curves is the ___
Published	09/27/2024	Major modality for assessing solid cancers
Published	09/27/2024	Increasingly used for cancers and in pts allergic to iodinated CT contrast media or declined CT scans for the concern of radiation
Published	09/27/2024	Primary modality for certain tumors (i.e. thyroid cancer)
Published	09/27/2024	Commonly used to eval suspicious masses seen on CT or MRI and to survey entire body for mets
Published	09/27/2024	PET scans are performed w/ what dye?
Published	09/27/2024	______________ scanners are manufactured w/ CT scanners integrated into imaging device
Published	09/27/2024	Modality suitable for evals in certain pts, such as assessing lung mets in pts w/ soft tissue sarcoma of an extremity
Published	09/27/2024	What is the MOST IMPT measurement for assigning T category on imaging studies?
Published	09/27/2024	What is a con of measurements from imaging?
Published	09/27/2024	_____________________ should be used for imaging tumor postoperatively for the extent of resection
Published	09/27/2024	Which modality likely obtained the T category measurement preoperatively?
Published	09/27/2024	Assessing LNs for met dx is difficult in ______________ oncologic imaging
Published	09/27/2024	What is considered the upper limit of normal for LNs?
Published	09/27/2024	Nodes involved w/ tumor may be ______ than cutoff threshold size? Reactive nodes often may be _________
Published	09/27/2024	Secondary criteria for judging malignant nodal involvemnt
Published	09/27/2024	_____________ or ________ can be performed to reduce uncertainty of malignant nodal involvement
Published	09/27/2024	___________________________ created a library of clear and consistent report templates for many cancers, for free
Published	09/27/2024	Factors w/ _________________ w/ prognosis are included in defining stage groups in the stage table w/ evidence provided
Published	09/27/2024	A stage group based solely on ________________ may be generated for the need to support staging in areas where prognostic factors are not obtained
Published	09/27/2024	Form to record cancer staging data; available for each dx online
Published	09/27/2024	A statistical index that represents a group's probability of surviving at a particular point in time
Published	09/27/2024	A summary display of the pattern of survival probabilities over time
Published	09/27/2024	Time from diagnosis to last known contact date that is valuable in estimating survival
Published	09/27/2024	Subjects observed until they've reached the end point of interest (i.e. recurrence or death)
Published	09/27/2024	Subjects that survive beyond end of follow-up or are lost to follow-up at some point
Published	09/27/2024	Which basic survival table method is most useful when data is available online at specified time intervals (i.e. annually)?
Published	09/27/2024	Which basic survival table method provides a more accurate estimate of the survival curve?
Published	09/27/2024	In most cancer applications, the most impt variable by which survival results should be subdivided is ________________
Published	09/27/2024	What are the other subclasses in survival results other than stage?
Published	09/27/2024	The survival estimates that account for all deaths, regardless of cause (true reflection of total mortality in the patient group,)
Published	09/27/2024	The proportion of the initial pt group that escaped death due to a specific cause (i.e. cancer) if no other COD was operating
Published	09/27/2024	Pts known to have died from another cause; when this is present, an alternative to Kaplan-Meier estimate is used
Published	09/27/2024	Ratio of observed survival to expected survival for a group of ppl in the gen pop similar to the pt group w/ respect to race, sex and age
Published	09/27/2024	Represents likelihood a pt will NOT die from causes associated specifically w/ the cancer at some specified time after diagnosis
Published	09/27/2024	The relative survival estimate is always _________ than the observed survival estimate for the same group of pts
Published	09/27/2024	The difference b/w 2 survival estimates done for the same population results
Published	09/27/2024	The measure of the extent to which sampling variation influences the computed survival estimate
Published	09/27/2024	What is the term used in repeated observations under the same conditions, the true or pop survival probability will lie w/in range of 2 standard error…
Published	09/27/2024	In comparing survival estimates for 2 diff pt groups, what is the essential question? What provides means for answering this question?
Published	09/27/2024	What is the most commonly used statistical method to assess the relationship of survival rates to several variable simulatenously?
Published	09/27/2024	What is the mission of AJCC?
Published	10/10/2024	What defines the anatomic extent of disease at diagnosis and serves as the most accurate indicator of prognosis?
Published	09/27/2024	Represents a range of overall survival for pts based on pop data w/in given stage group (TNM can't predict alone)
Published	09/27/2024	Group of experts that ID and review existing prognostication calculation tools to incorporate mult factors to improve accuracy
Published	09/27/2024	What 5 cancers is the molecular modelers working group used in?
Published	09/27/2024	Members w/ dx-specific knowledge, biostats and prediction models w/ to goal to ID all available non-anatomic models to build on anatomic staging
Published	09/27/2024	Predictors to yield an outcome (multivariable stat regression)
Published	09/27/2024	Combined info from mult pt and tumor characteristics in prognostication
Published	09/27/2024	Probability estimates for experiencing a particular event in prognostication
Status	Last Update	Fields