These AJCC Presentations were originally offered at NCRA Annual Conferences. They are designed to provide instruction on the AJCC staging system, staging rules, common questions, and disease site specifics.
2025 AJCC Staging: Inside Story for New 2025 Changes
- Discuss key points of the four new AJCC Version 9 protocols: Nasopharynx, Lung, Thymus, Diffuse Pleural Mesothelioma
- Dissect changes in the new staging systems
- Examine the workup tables and disease-specific staging rules
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2024 AJCC Staging: Insights into New 2024 Version 9 Protocols
- Discuss key points of the seven new AJCC Version 9 protocols: Vulva, Neuroendocrine Tumors of Stomach, Duodenum & Ampulla of Vater, Jejunum & Ileum, Appendix, Colon & Rectum, Pancreas
- Dissect changes in the new staging systems
- Examine the workup tables and disease-specific staging rules
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2024 AJCC Staging – Critical Staging Clarifications
- Review Chapter 1 and other resources for AJCC Staging
- Examine clarifications in common staging questions
- Discuss difficult staging circumstances for case scenarios
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2023 AJCC Staging: Understanding New Content and Clarification of Staging Issues
- Discuss highlights of the new AJCC Version 9 protocols: Appendix, Anus, Brain & Spinal Cord
- Contrast parameters of the four staging classifications
- Demonstrate common questions and staging issues through examples and analogies
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2022 AJCC Future Directions and Staging Updates
- Illustrate key features of Version 9 protocol format
- Plans for protocol implementation
- Introduce plans to educate stakeholders and provide resources
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2021 AJCC TNM Staging System: Past, Present and Future Staging Issues
- Solve common questions from the past and present
- Dissect new stage data items and future staging changes
- Demonstrate staging issues through examples and analogies
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2020 Update on AJCC Eighth Edition TNM Staging
- Solve common questions from the past and present
- Dissect new stage data items and future staging changes
- Demonstrate staging issues through examples and analogies
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2019 Essentials of Navigating the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, 8th Edition
- Evaluate staging rule changes and effect on registrars
- Dissect registry and physician staging concerns
- Demonstrate staging issues through examples
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2018 AJCC 8th Edition Rules – In-depth Review
- In-depth review of select staging rules
- Dissect staging rule changes
- Influence of registry data on future staging changes
- Demonstrate use of staging rules through examples
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2017 Highlights of AJCC 8th Edition Chapter 1 – Principles of Cancer Staging
- Examine format and expansion of Chapter 1
- Explain key rules with their rationale
- Identify changes between 7th and 8th editions
- Minor to keep pace with changing medicine, clarifications
- Major based on data showing inconsistency or inaccuracy
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