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Glossary
The glossary explains some of the words used across this website and covers some key cancer and research terms, which primarily focus on lung cancer.
Targeted screening
TNM system
- T: the size of the primary tumour
- N: whether the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes
- M: whether the tumour has metastasised, either nearby or to distant parts of the body.
Treatment
References
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Goldstraw P, Chansky K, Crowley J, et al. 2016. The IASLC lung cancer staging project: proposals for revision of the TNM stage groupings in the forthcoming (eighth) edition of the TNM classification for lung cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 11(1): 39-51
Cancer Research UK. Stages of cancer. [Updated 07/07/20]. Available from: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/stages-of-cancer [Accessed 12/04/22]
Zappa C, Mousa SA. 2016. Non-small cell lung cancer: current treatment and future advances. Translational lung cancer research 5(3): 288-300
Rudin CM, Brambilla E, Faivre-Finn C, et al. 2021. Small-cell lung cancer. Nature Reviews Disease Primers 7(1): 3
enters for Disease Control and Prevention. How is lung cancer diagnosed and treated? [Updated 18/10/21]. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/diagnosis_treatment.html [Accessed 30/03/22]