Should Patients with Stage IB Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Receive Adjuvant Chemotherapy? A Comparison of Survival Between the 8th and 7th Editions of the AJCC TNM Staging System for Stage IB Patients.

The aims of this study were to compare the efficacy of platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy in resected patients with stage IB NSCLC according to the 7th and 8th editions of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging manuals on tumor, node, and metastasis (TNM) staging systems, respectively.