Inclusion of extranodal extension in the lymph node classification of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
Moran AmitChuan LiuFrederico Omar Gleber-NettoSameer KiniSamantha H TamAvi BenovMohamed AashiqAdel K El-NaggarAmy C MorenoDavid I RosenthalBonnie S GlissonRenata FerrarottoMichael K WongMichael R MigdenErez N BaruchGuojun LiAnshu KhannaRyan P GoepfertPriyadharsini NagarajanRandal S WeberJeffrey N MyersNeil D GrossPublished in: Cancer (2020)
The number of metastatic lymph nodes and the presence of ENE are independent prognostic factors for DSS in cutaneous HNSCC, and incorporation of these factors in staging systems improves the performance of the American Joint Committee on Cancer lymph node classification.