The most widely used staging system for renal cell carcinoma is the TNM staging system developed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging (AJCC), which is currently applied in the updated 8th edition of 2017. See Table 4 and Table 5 for details.
Table 4 2017 8th edition AJCC TNM staging for renal cell carcinomaTable 5 Renal cell carcinoma clinical staging/prognostic subgroups