The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Staging Project for Lung Cancer: Recommendation to Introduce Spread Through Air Spaces as a Histologic Descriptor in the Ninth Edition of the TNM Classification of Lung Cancer. Analysis of 4061 Pathologic Stage I NSCLC.
William D TravisMegan EiseleKatherine K NishimuraRania G AlyPietro BertoglioTeh-Ying ChouFrank C DetterbeckJessica DonningtonWentao FangPhilippe JoubertKemp KernstineYoung Tae KimYolande LievensHui LiuGustavo LyonsMari Mino-KenudsonAndrew G NicholsonMauro PapottiRamon Rami-PortaValerie RuschShuji SakaiPaula UgaldePaul Van SchilChi-Fu Jeffrey YangVanessa J CilentoMasaya YotsukuraHisao Asamuranull nullPublished in: Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (2024)
These data support our recommendation to include STAS as a histologic descriptor for the Ninth Edition of the TNM Classification of Lung Cancer. Hopefully, gathering these data in the coming years will facilitate a thorough analysis to better understand the relative impact of STAS, LVI, and VPI on lung cancer staging for the Tenth Edition TNM Stage Classification.