%0 Journal Article %T Anatomy is not enough: the crucial role of biology and genetics in AJCC eighth edition of the TNM classification for breast cancer %A Elisabetta Rossi %A Francesca Magnoni %A Giovanni Corso %A Giuseppe Accardo %A Paolo Veronesi %J Archive of "Annals of Translational Medicine". %D 2019 %R 10.21037/atm.2019.02.12 %X The eighth edition of the AJCC-TNM staging system could be read as the expression of growing scientific tendency to a more personalized approach to cancer diagnosis and treatment. The signs of this significant cultural propensity were already present since first passes in cancer staging definition in 1959 (1) %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6462629/