1. Lung Cancer Staging: A Case for a New T Definition
Major Charles R. Mulligan, MC, USA, Amir D. Meram, MD, Courtney D. Proctor, Hongyu Wu, MD, Kangmin Zhu, PhD, Aizen J. Marrogi, LTC, MC, USA 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 82, Issue 1, Pages (July 2006)
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2. Fig 1
The graph depicts the dispersion of tumor size and pathologic stage. Note the increasing incidence of advanced stage cancer with increasing size.
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3. Fig 2
Tumor size and relative risk compared with overall cure rates for each size tumor. Note the transitions occurring at 2.0 cm and 4.0 cm for both curves.
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4. Fig 3
Stage groupings and their changes based upon new T definition. The arrows reflect the stage migration of the new T definition and the number which changed stage.
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5. Fig 4
Kaplan–Meier survival curves comparing current and new staging systems, showing the difference in stage I cancers (A); stage II cancers (B); stage III cancers (C); and stage IV cancer (D).
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