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Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer Treatment - Stage Information for Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer

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Table 3. Distant Metastasisa

^a Reprinted with permission from AJCC: Lip and oral cavity. In: Edge SB, Byrd DR, Compton CC, et al., eds.: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 7th ed. New York, NY: Springer, 2010, pp 29-40.
M0	No distant metastasis.
M1	Distant metastasis.

Table 4. Anatomic Stage/Prognostic Groupsa

^a Reprinted with permission from AJCC: Lip and oral cavity. In: Edge SB, Byrd DR, Compton CC, et al., eds.: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 7th ed. New York, NY: Springer, 2010, pp 29-40.
Stage	T	N	M
0	Tis	N0	M0
I	T1	N0	M0
II	T2	N0	M0
III	T3	N0	M0
T1	N1	M0
T2	N1	M0
T3	N1	M0
IVA	T4a	N0	M0
T4a	N1	M0
T1	N2	M0
T2	N2	M0
T3	N2	M0
T4a	N2	M0
IVB	Any T	N3	M0
T4b	Any N	M0
IVC	Any T	Any N	M1

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Harrison LB, Sessions RB, Hong WK, eds.: Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott-Raven, 1999.
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Lip and oral cavity. In: Edge SB, Byrd DR, Compton CC, et al., eds.: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 7th ed. New York, NY: Springer, 2010, pp 29-35.

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