Are You Using the AJCC Eighth Edition Staging
System to
Manage Your Patients?
Staging
Moments® is a facility-level educational series developed by the AJCC. They are intended to promote physician
discussion on proper and accurate cancer staging.
The Staging
Moments® series offers succinct, contemporary case-based presentations
following the cancer conference (tumor board) format of: symptom presentation;
imaging work-up; and pathology diagnosis.
Clinical stage is assigned and used in discussing treatment options
based on national guidelines. The series provides surgical and pathology findings
to assign pathological or posttherapy /postneoadjuvant therapy stage.
The
presentations target difficult and common staging scenarios and clarify the
finer points of staging. They are ideal
for use at department or cancer conferences.
*Presentations will open in Adobe
Reader. Ctrl L or View-Full Screen Mode will enable the best viewing and
can be advanced using the arrow keys, page up or down, or a presentation remote
control.
Are You Seeking Compliance with Commission on Cancer Standard
1.10?
Staging Moments®
may be used to comply with CoC Cancer Programs Standard 1.10 Clinical
Educational Activity. Compliance requires
the site specific educational activity include AJCC stage, prognostic factors
(which may include registry prognostic factor data collection), and discussion
of national treatment guidelines.
When using Staging
Moments® to comply, the cancer program must have a cancer committee physician
leader for the educational activity guiding the participants in discussion with
questions and answers.
Discussion must
include all of the standard’s criteria, such as reviewing various national
treatment guidelines, which may not be included in the presentation. Refer to the CoC Standards for more
information.