TNM Staging Charts

Excerpted from TNM Staging Atlas. TNM Staging Atlas has won the British Medical Association Medical Book of the Year 2008 award. This atlas presents cancer staging in a highly visual rapid-reference format, with clear full-color diagrams and TNM stages by organ site. The illustrations-some original and some derived from Grant's Atlas of Anatomy -are three-dimensional, three-planar cross-sectional presentations of primary anatomy and regional nodal anatomy. They show the anatomic features identifiable on physical and/or radiologic examination and the anatomic extent of cancer spread which is the basis for staging. A color code indicates the spectrum of cancer progression at primary sites (T) and lymph node regions (N). The text then rapidly reviews metastatic spread patterns and their incidence.