8th Edition AJCC/UICC Staging of Cancers of the Esophagus and Esophagogastric Junction

Staging of cancer of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction (EGJ), presented in the 8th edition American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). Cancer Staging was derived from the Worldwide Esophageal Cancer Collaboration (WECC). The 8th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging of the esophagus cancers and esophagogastric junction presents separate classifications for clinical (cTNM), pathologic (pTNM), and pathologic after neoadjuvant treatment (ypTNM). In this article changes presented between the 7th and 8th editions of this TNM classification. These changes included separate clinical, pathological and pathological prognostic staging for adenocarcinomas and squamous cell cancer.