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AMA Manual of Style (10th ed.) : A Guide for Authors and Editors

AMA Manual of Style Committee

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Mar 2007
Print ISBN-13:
9780195176339
Published to AMA Manual of Style:
Apr 2009
DOI:
10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001
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Cancer

Chapter:
Nomenclature
Author(s):

Harriet S. Meyer

Cancer stages are expressed with the use of capital roman numerals: stage I stage II stage III stage IVThe term “stage 0” usually indicates carcinoma in situ.Histologic grades are expressed with arabic numerals, eg, grade 2.Letter and numerical suffixes, usually set on the line, may be added to subdivide individual cancer stages, as in the following examples: stage 0a stage 0is stage IA stage IE stage IB2 stage IIIE+S stage IVA stage IVB (E indicates extralymphatic spread; S, splenic involvement [as seen in Hodgkin disease]; “is,” in situ.)The TNM staging system is an internationally standardized system for the staging of

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