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A new Spanish translation of User’s Guide to Essential TNM, Guía del Usuario TNM Esencial, is now available from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The book is published by IARC in collaboration with the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
The translation and dissemination of this book in Spanish increase the accessibility of the Essential TNM system and enable Spanish-speaking staff in cancer registries to reduce gaps in cancer staging information, improve cancer registry data, and ultimately provide more accurate data on the burden of cancer to researchers and policy-makers. Stage at diagnosis is particularly relevant in the framework of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Breast Cancer Initiative.
This publication presents a simplified system that enables cancer registries to assign cancer stage at diagnosis. Essential TNM is a complement to the full tumour, node, metastasis (TNM) classification, published by UICC. It is for use by cancer registrars when either the full TNM stage group (I, II, III, or IV) or the TNM staging components (T, N, and M) have not been explicitly recorded in a patient’s records.
Guía del Usuario TNM Esencial (IARC Technical Publication No. 48) includes flow charts with diagrams and questions to help identify the extent of disease for eight cancer types: breast, cervical, colorectal, liver, oesophageal, ovarian, and prostate cancers and lymphoma.
Guía del Usuario TNM Esencial is available for free download in PDF format.
Read Guía del Usuario TNM Esencial (IARC Technical Publication No. 48)
Read User’s Guide to Essential TNM (IARC Technical Publication No. 48)
