Pan-Cancer Analysis of Prognostic Metastatic Phenotypes

Purpose/Objective(s)Staging for metastatic disease is unreliable; there is usually only one category of Stage IV in the American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC) 8th edition, but survival can range from weeks to years. We hypothesize that prognostication can be improved for metastatic disease by using common clinical covariates in a pan-cancer phenotype staging system.Materials/MethodsLatent class analysis was performed to explore the...