Thursday, August 4, 2011

TNM Staging Of Oropharyngeal Cancer

T stage
Depends on anatomical location, complicate
General concept of T stage
   T1, T2: confined, not invade adjacent tissue
   T3: larger, may invade adjacent tissue
   T4: deeply invade adjacent tissue/organ
   4a, 4b: depends on extend of invasion
Critical structure: skull base, pre-veterbral fascia, internal carotid artery, mediastinum







          



                                      

Staging

Stage I





T1





N0





M0
Stage II
T2
N0
M0
Stage III
T3
N0
M0
T1
N1
M0
T2
N1
M0
T3
N1
M0
Stage IVa
T4a
N0
M0
T4a
N1
M0
T1
N2
M0
T2
N2
M0
T3
N2
M0
T4a
N2
M0
Stage IVb
T4b
Any N
M0
Any T
N3
M0
Stage IVc
Any T
Any N
M1



4 comments:

  1. Very great! Me and Dr Fredda Branyon likes all the information you have shared here. Keep sharing!

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  2. To the author...you clearly put a great deal of effort into your blog. Therefore, I thought it best that you know that Ms. Burns (above) has been making inane comments about "Dr" Fredda Branyon on every blog or post that she can find with the word 'cancer' in the title...including mine. Turns out that Branyon is NOT a physician. In fact, she is a CRIMINAL!!! Fredda Branyon of Scottsdale, Arizona, has made thousands off sick and desperate individuals. Ms. Branyon started buying umbilical cords and cord blood tissue from a Del Rio birthing center in 2009. Then, with no training regarding stem cell development or the legal ability to do so, she manufactured hundreds of vials of "stem cells". She sold 183 vials of "stem cells" for more than $300,000, to Francisco Morales, who worked with the lab she owned, Global Laboratories. Morales, in turn, led his patients to believe he was a doctor (he isn't) and was arrested in Texas for treating people with cancer and multiple sclerosis in "treatments" not approved by the FDA. Branyon pleaded guilty during an investigation by the FDA and FBI in 2011. She was facing 3 years in jail and a $10,000 fine. I hope she is cooling her heels in prison as I write.

    Sorry to use your blog in this way, but thought you would like to know. Yours, les

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  3. Les, I find your comment so lousy! no help at all :(

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