From the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual prepared by the American Joint Committee on Cancer, the AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook contains the complete text of the Manual searchable in STAT!Ref online. Used by physicians and health care professionals world wide, the Seventh Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook brings together all the currently available information on staging of cancer at various anatomic sites and incorporates newly acquired knowledge on the etiology and pathology of cancer. As knowledge of cancer biology expands, cancer staging must incorporate these advances.

Organized by disease site into 57 comprehensive chapters, the Seventh Edition features much-anticipated, major revisions to many chapters including breast, colon, prostate, kidney and others. There are new primary site chapters for extrahepatic bile ducts, distal bile duct, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, Merkel cell carcinoma and the adrenal gland plus a vastly expanded section on ophthalmologic malignancies.

User friendly enhancements include:

• A revised and expanded presentation of the principles and rules of TNM staging
• A concise summary of changes in the TNM classification and "Staging at a Glance" opening each chapter to provide a snapshot of staging and coding details
• Numerous new line drawings illustrating key sites throughout the text
• Full-color text to highlight elements of TNM, stage groupings and prognostic factors

The Seventh Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook remains the essential reference for oncologists, pathologists, surgeons, cancer registrars and medical professionals worldwide to ensure that all those taking care of cancer patients are fully versed in the language of cancer staging.

STEPHEN B. EDGE, M.D., FACS
Professor of Surgery
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Buffalo, NY

CAROLYN C. COMPTON, M.D., Ph.D.
PDirector, Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR)
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

DAVID R. BYRD, M.D.
General Surgery Specialist
Department of Surgery, Associate Professor
Melanoma Center, Director
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Seattle, WA

ANDY TROTTI, M.D..
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
National Cancer Institute
Tampa, FL

FREDERICK L. GREENE, M.D.
Chair, Department of General Surgery
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, North Carolina

APRIL G. FRITZ, C.T.R., R.H.I.T.
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland