Each cancer registration is coded according to the International Classification of Disease 10th revision (ICD-10), with a morphology code from either the 2nd (ICD-O-2) or the 3rd edition (ICD-O-3) of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology; for this study, ICD-O-2 morphology codes were converted to ICD-O-3 (SEER, 2001).
A per diem productivity loss of €90, cited in the 3rd edition of Hanover Consensus13, is an approximation based on 2006.
This is explained in detail in the Sendmail book: § 19.6.28 of the 2nd edition, or § 4.8.51 of the 3rd edition; an overview is given here.
The 1st edition of the WHO Blue Book was published in 1979[ 1 ], the 2nd edition was published 1993[ 2 ], the 3rd edition in 2000[ 3 ].
We used the German version (HADS-D), published by Herrmann-Lingen et al. in 1995 and available in the 3rd edition [ 28].
As already mentioned Darwin was well aware of Lamarck's work and generously acknowledged Lamarck's contribution in the chapter on his scientific forerunners that he included in the Origin starting with the 3rd edition [ 4].
For additional analyses, we defined four major histologic groups of breast cancer: invasive ductal (8500/3, 8503/3, 8521/3, 8525/3), invasive lobular (8520/3), invasive ductal and lobular mixed (8522-8524/3, 8541/3) carcinomas, and cancers of other or unspecified (8000/3-8004/3) histypegic type based on the 3rd edition of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O-3) [ 13].
However, as similar pathophysiological mechanisms have been suggested [3], it has been included among the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias in the 3rd edition beta version [4].
This information includes the date of each such event and codes the tumour site and morphology using the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) (World Health Organization, 1992) and the 3rd Edition of Morphology and Neoplasms (Fritz et al, 2000).
This supplement contains an accurate selection of papers based on the research presented at the 3rd edition of the International Meeting CMA4CH with a balance in the three main topics.
