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Commentary

AJCC-8 TNM Staging System for Gastric Cancer. Is There a Scope for Improvement?

(Invited brief commentary on a paper entitled: Proposed modification of the 8th edition of the AJCC staging system for gastric cancer)

Nikolaos TsoukalasDepartment of Oncology, Veterans Hospital (NIMTS), Athens, Greece; Correspondence[email protected]
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Konstantinos TsapakidisDepartment of Oncology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece;
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Konstantinos KamposiorasDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Wakefield, UK
Pages 939-940 | Published online: 20 Mar 2019

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