AJCC 8th Edition Melanoma Staging Analysis

Dr David Gyorki and MMP – December 2015 (data)

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) is the organisation responsible for devising cancer staging systems which are used by most cancer clinicians and researchers around the world as a unifying language to describe patients as well as to predict outcome for patients.

In preparing the 8th edition, the AJCC sought data from large international datasets to help identify variable to include in the new system. The MMP dataset was formatted appropriately and shared with the AJCC for inclusion in the latest staging system.