British Journal of Ophthalmology • Vol 107 • No 1
Retinoblastoma seeds: impact on American Joint Committee on Cancer clinical staging
August 2021 • Ankit Singh Tomar, Paul T. Finger, Brenda Gallie, Tero Kivelä, Ashwin Mallipatna, Chengyue Zhang, Junyang Zhao, Matthew W. Wilson, Rachel C. Brennan,…
Aim To investigate whether the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) clinical category cT2b needs to be subclassified by the type and distribution of retinoblastoma (RB) seeding. Methods Multicentre, international registry-based data were collected from RB centres enrolled between January 2001 and December 2013. 1054 RB eyes with vitreous or subretinal seeds from 18 ophthalmic oncology centres, in 13 countries within six continents were analysed. Local treatment failure was defined as the use of secondary enuc…