Although tumor node metastasis (TNM) staging in WM has been accepted and used with no reserve in the criteria of CM diagnosis and treatment of cancer, some differences still exist between CM and WM in the evaluation...Although tumor node metastasis (TNM) staging in WM has been accepted and used with no reserve in the criteria of CM diagnosis and treatment of cancer, some differences still exist between CM and WM in the evaluation criterion. The reason for this focuses on evaluation criterion of effects on solid tumor made by the World Health Organization (WHO), which does not reflect some aspects such as survival time of tumor patients or improvement in quality of life (QOL). Therefore, forerunners in the CM field have been making efforts to try to find an evaluation criteria that would integrate CM and WM, and thus could be approved by CM and WM specialists.展开更多
文摘Although tumor node metastasis (TNM) staging in WM has been accepted and used with no reserve in the criteria of CM diagnosis and treatment of cancer, some differences still exist between CM and WM in the evaluation criterion. The reason for this focuses on evaluation criterion of effects on solid tumor made by the World Health Organization (WHO), which does not reflect some aspects such as survival time of tumor patients or improvement in quality of life (QOL). Therefore, forerunners in the CM field have been making efforts to try to find an evaluation criteria that would integrate CM and WM, and thus could be approved by CM and WM specialists.