Thursday, March 01, 2007

Stages of Cancer

Here is a brief summary of what the stages mean:

  • Stage 1 usually means a cancer is relatively small and contained within the organ it started in
  • Stage 2 usually means the cancer is localised, but the tumour is larger than in stage 1. Sometimes stage 2 means there are nearby lymph nodes that have cancer cells in.
  • Stage 3 usually means the cancer is larger and there are cancer cells in the lymph nodes in the area
  • Stage 4 means the cancer has spread from where it started to another body organ, such as the liver, bones or lungs

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