The IASLC/ITMIG thymic malignancies staging project: development of a stage classification for thymic malignancies.

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Published in J Thorac Oncol on December 01, 2013

Authors

Frank C Detterbeck1, Hisao Asamura, John Crowley, Conrad Falkson, Giuseppe Giaccone, Dori Giroux, James Huang, Jhingook Kim, Kazuya Kondo, Marco Lucchi, Mirella Marino, Edith M Marom, Andrew Nicholson, Meinoshin Okumura, Enrico Ruffini, Paul van Schil, Kelly Stratton, Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee, Members of the Advisory Boards, Participating Institutions of the Thymic Domain

Author Affiliations

1: *Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; †Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; ‡Biostatistics, Cancer Research And Biostatistics, Seattle, Washington; §Radiation Oncology, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada; ‖Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; ¶Thoracic Surgery, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; #Thoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea; **Thoracic Surgery, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan; ††Thoracic Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; ‡‡Pathology, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy; §§Radiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; ‖‖Pathology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ¶¶Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; ##Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy; ***Thoracic Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; ††† Members of the Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee are listed in the Appendix 1; ‡‡‡ Members of the Advisory Boards are listed in the Appendices 2, 3, and 4; and §§§ Members of the Participating Institutions of the Thymic Domain are listed in the Appendix 5.

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