Comparison of contemporary staging systems for oropharynx cancer in a surgically treated multi-institutional cohort.

Olgun Eliçin Martina A Broglie DäppenNiklaus FankhauserSandro J StoeckliPhilippe PascheAntoine ReinhardMassimo BongiovanniGerhard F HuberGrégoire B MorandAlex SoltermannAndreas ArnoldMatthias S DettmerAndré ArnouxEdouard StaufferVittoria EspeliFrancesco MartucciDaniel M AebersoldRoland Giger

Published in: Head & neck (2018)

UICC 8th ed, MDACC, and RTOG offer moderate and comparable efficacy for staging in this OPSCC patient cohort undergoing surgical treatment. Notable discrepancy between clinical and pathological UICC 8th ed algorithms poses potential concerns in diagnosis, treatment, research, and data management.

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