The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) listed a number of features associated with an ideal cancer staging system. A staging system is a tool that must be reliable if it is to be successful.
Feature
Term
patients separated into groups with different outcomes
distinctive
within each group the outcomes for patients are similar
homogeneous
outcomes get worse with increasing stage
monotonous
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