[Histonet] pathologic staging

[Mark Tarango]

The pathologist should be responsible for pathologic staging on excisional
specimens.  The surgeon (sometimes oncologist) does the clinical staging.
At least that is what happens at our local tumor board meeting.

Mark

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 9:05 AM Eck, Allison via Histonet <
histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:

> Good morning histonet
> I have a question that is more for a pathologist but I am hoping some of
> you can help.  When staging cancer cases (namely breast), there are 2
> stagings, pathologic and clinical  As per the AJCC, the pathologic staging
> includes  information defined at surgery and clinical staging is determined
> by using information prior to surgery or neoadjuvant therapy.  My question
> is: Are pathologists responsible for staging both the clinical and the
> pathologic stage?  If not, do you know who does the clinical staging?
>
> Thanks
> Allison
>
> Allison Eck, HTL(ASCP)cm,QLS, AHI(AMT),CEAS1
> Lead Tech Histology
> Doylestown Hospital
> 595 W State St
> Doylestown, PA 18901
> 215-345-2264
> aeck at dh.org<mailto:aeck at dh.org>
>
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