Cancer Stage
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A Cancer Stage is a disease stage for a cancer disease.
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- See: Metastasis, Cancer, Tumor, Organ (Anatomy), Lymph Nodes.
References
2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cancer_staging Retrieved:2018-4-26.
- Cancer staging is the process of determining the extent to which a cancer has developed by growing and spreading. Contemporary practice is to assign a number from I to IV to a cancer, with I being an isolated cancer and IV being a cancer which has spread to the limit of what the assessment measures. The stage generally takes into account the size of a tumor, whether it has invaded adjacent organs, how many regional (nearby) lymph nodes it has spread to (if any), and whether it has appeared in more distant locations (metastasized).