Validation of the newly proposed American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) breast cancer prognostic staging group and proposing a new staging system using the National Cancer Database.
Xiaoxian LiYiran ZhangJane MeiselRenjian JiangMadhusmita BeheraLimin PengPublished in: Breast cancer research and treatment (2018)
The new PSG is a better staging system than the conventional anatomic TNM system. Grouping breast cancer into TNBC versus non-TNBC may be simpler while retaining similar accuracy as using ER/PR/HER2 status to predict OS.