Table 1:
TNM Classification Used in Staging Squamous
Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus

T: Primary Tumor

Tx: Cannot be assessed

To: No evidence of tumor

T1, T2, T3, T4: Different depths of invasion

N: Lymph nodes

Nx: Cannot be assessed

No: No nodes

N1: Positive nodes

M: Distant metastasis

Mx: Cannot be assessed

Mo: No metastasis

M1: Metastasis

  
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