Ajcc Cancer Staging Atlas

AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON CANCER AJCC CANCER STAGING ATLAS EDITORS FREDERICK L. GREENE, m.d. Chair, Department of General Surgery Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, North Carolina CAROLYN C. COMPTON, m.d., ph.d Director of Biorepositories and Biospeciment Research National Cancer Institute Bethesda, Maryland APRIL G. FRITZ, c.t.r., r.h.i.t. Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute Bethesda, Maryland JATIN P. SHAH, m.d. Chief, Head and Neck Service Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, New York DAVID P. WINCHESTER, m.d. Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Evanston, Illinois AJCC CANCER STAGING ATLAS AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON CANCER Executive Office 633 North Saint Clair Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 FOUNDING ORGANIZATIONS American Cancer Society American College of Physicians American College of Radiology American College of Surgeons College of American Pathologists National Cancer Institute SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS American Cancer Society American College of Surgeons American Society of Clinical Oncology Centers for Disease Control and Prevention LIAISON ORGANIZATIONS American Urological Association Association of American Cancer Institutes National Cancer Registrars Association North American Association of Central Cancer Registries American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Society of Urologic Oncology American Joint Committee on Cancer Executive Office 633 North Saint Clair Street Chicago, IL 60611, USA Editors: Frederick L. Greene, M.D. April G. Fritz, C.T.R., R.H.I.T. David P. Winchester, M.D. Carolyn C. Compton, M.D., PH.D. Jatin P. Shan, M.D. Illustrator: Alice Y. Chen This atlas was prepared and published through the support of the American Cancer Society, the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the International Union Against Cancer. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932559 ISBN-10: 0-387-29014-1 ISBN-13: 978-0387-29014-0 Printed on acid-free paper. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Print