Thanks for your help. The other cancer registrar check the AJCC 6th
edition and found documentation that malignant pleural effusion does
in fact make it a stage IV. Since the beginning of the section does
not list this as being a change from the 5th edition, we will assume
that it means stage IV in the 5th too.




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> buzybeectr <no_reply@y...> on 10/01/2002 02:02:22 PM
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> I would assign a Stage IV to this case.  Since the pleural effusion
> is positive, it does affect the stage.  A positive pleural effusion
> is documented evidence of disseminated (distant) disease.
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> I posed this question to one of our medical oncologists to make sure
> I was not missing anything and he concurred.
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> --- In cancerregistrargroup@y..., jford@r... wrote:
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> > Stage III. Pleural effusion doesn't matter.
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