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American College of SurgeonsThe American College of Surgeons (ACoS) is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment. The ACoS is a scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice. ACoS sponsors continuing medical education programs; conducts programs to improve the care of cancer patients and of injured and critically ill patients; monitors and analyzes socioeconomic, legislative, and regulatory issues affecting the field of surgery; and provides public education services to patients to help them make informed decisions about surgical care. Partnership ActivitiesCDC and ACoS are working together with other groups to develop the Collaborative Staging (CS) system, an innovative approach to collecting stage data uniformly in cancer registries throughout the United States. This new system will replace separate data collection by American Joint Committee on Cancer's Tumor, Nodes, Metastasis (TNM) staging system, the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results' (SEER) Extent of Disease (EOD) coding scheme, and two versions of a summary staging system used in many state central cancer registries. The new CS system involves collecting many discrete elements of data that can be combined in multiple ways to derive the stages needed for data analysis. American College of Surgeons *Links to non-Federal organizations found at this site are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.
Page last reviewed: September 26, 2006 Page last updated: September 26, 2006 Content source: Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
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