Table 5. Stage distribution between the Masaoka-Koga and IASLC/IMTIG TNM systems.
Masaoka-Koga stage | IASLC/ITMIG TNM stage | Total | |||||
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I | II | IIIA | IIIb | IVa | IVb | ||
I | 74 | 74 | |||||
IIa | 117 | 117 | |||||
IIb | 12 | 12 | |||||
III | 8 | 21 | 1 | 30 | |||
IVa | 11 | 11 | |||||
IVb | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 203 | 8 | 21 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 245 |
IASLC, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer; IMTIG, International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.