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Inclusion of Comorbidity in a Staging System for Head and Neck Cancer
September 01, 1995
The widespread use of the TNM staging system has helped standardize the classification of cancers. Despite its excellence in describing a tumor's size and extent of anatomic spread, the TNM system does not account for the clinical biology of the cancer.