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Cancer Stages Tips & Guide
By Anne Ahira on July 16, 2009
When cancer is diagnosed, the doctor will go through steps to figure out the stage of the cancer.
Cancer stages are used to help doctors form a treatment plan and to help patients understand the extent of their cancer and the prognosis.
Staging cancer may look confusing, but it is actually not so difficult to understand.
Major Staging
A process called staging will determine cancer stages. It determines the severity of the cancer.
It is based on the extent of how much the cancer has spread in the body.
Doctors will perform additional tests to check the body for cancer and to get a good idea of where the cancer is, where it began and if it is spreading.
The importance of Staging
It is very important process to determine how to treat the cancer.
It is also useful for future research and understanding how that particular cancer reacts in the body.
Here is why staging is very important:
* It helps doctor to form a treatment plan
* Staging helps in forming a prognosis
* It is helpful in research studies
Components of Staging
Staging is done by looking at different factors.
In order to help maintain a level of consistency for staging there are certain elements that are included when determining cancer stages. These elements include:
* Location of where the cancer began
* Number and size of tumors
* Cancer location inside the lymph nodes.
* Grade and cell type of tumors
* Amount of metastasis
Generally, cancer stages are based upon 5 stages chart, and here is how it looks:
Stage 0 : Only pre-cancerous cells are present or early.
Stage One, Two, and Three: Cancer may have spread in the localized area.
Stage 4: Cancer has spread everywhere in the body
It is not easy to understand cancer stages, but is actually very important. A person receiving a diagnosis of stage one cancer will know that the cancer is a lot easier to treat, and so their prognosis will be good.
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