FAQs and Resources

This content is available for purchase through Amazon as an eBook or print-on demand. Content is also available for licensed software vendors visit our website under Cancer Staging System Products.

Currently, there are no plans to publish a traditional printed AJCC manual for Version 9. However, we will continue to evaluate our users’ needs.

The Version 9 cervix content is applicable for diagnosis starting January 1, 2021. The Anus, Appendix, and Brain & Spinal Cord is applicable for diagnosis starting January 1, 2023.

An Amazon account is free and required to purchase individual Version 9 content.

If you do not have a Kindle, you can still download digital books from Amazon's Kindle Store and read them on a device that you do have. Amazon has Kindle reading applications available for Windows, Mac, iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry.

Windows Application

Apple Application

Yes. Your ownership of the Kindle book is connected to your Amazon account.

The AJCC does not license directly with libraries or hospitals. However, the AJCC licenses the electronic content with third party vendors who specialize in working with libraries and hospitals. For more information on getting electronic access to the AJCC content at your institution please contact any of the following partners:

• Teton Data
• R2 Digital Library
• Skyscape

Yes. You can use Amazon Kindle App to read on iPhone and Android, and Kindle Desktop Reader as well.

Customers should contact Amazon directly here.

Please contact Amazon for all product issues here. The AJCC will not be able to address technical issues. The AJCC will address content issues and can be reached at ajcc@facs.org.

No. Changes will not be automatically pushed to those who purchased an original version. Only major errors will be corrected.

At this time, we do not have plans for providing this content in a different manner, but we will continue to monitor other options.

Amazon allows you to create an Amazon Household. This allows you to share Amazon benefits with two adults. Here is a link that tells you more https://www.amazon.com/myh/households.

No, however, you can view the content online using the Kindle desktop application, which is free to download.

No. The Kindle is intended to be used as a digital product. However, you can separately purchase a print-on-demand protocol through Amazon.

No. Audio capabilities are not currently available.

Yes, there is full search functionality built into the Kindle platform.

Yes, you can highlight, save notes, and create flash cards in your Kindle.

This is the most current version of the 8th Edition Cancer Staging Manual that includes all the corrections to errata identified through September 2018.

In the years ahead, disease sites will become available for purchase as they are updated to Version 9. These disease sites will be available individually as they become published. However, bundles may become an option in the future.

As each disease site is updated to Version 9, the corresponding chapter in the 8th Edition will no longer be in effect. Over time, as all chapters in the 8th Edition are updated to Version 9, the 8th Edition will no longer be valid.