The TNM classification of malignant tumours-towards common understanding and reasonable expectations

Affiliations

• ¹ Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Canada.
• ² Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ³ University Institute of Pathology, Lausanne University Medical Center, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁵ Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ⁶ Cancer Surveillance Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
• ⁷ Belgium Cancer Registry, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁸ Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁹ Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Canada. Electronic address: marykg@rmp.uhn.on.ca.