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QTNM: a simplified TNM or just another staging system?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology volume 5, pages 531–532 (2009)Cite this article

Numerous risk-group stratification, staging and scoring systems exist to stratify patients with differentiated thyroid cancer into prognostic risk groups that guide patient management decisions. The tumor–node–metastasis staging system is the most widely adopted despite its relative complexity, but could a simplified, quantitative alternative to the system provide superior prognostic value?

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Lang, B., Lo, CY. QTNM: a simplified TNM or just another staging system?. Nat Rev Endocrinol 5, 531–532 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2009.181

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