Back مراحل تطور مرض السرطان Arabic Estadificació del càncer Catalan Stadienbestimmung (Onkologie) German Estadificación Spanish Bilan d'extension French Estadificación do cancro Galician Tsarin Ciwon daji Hausa שלבי הסרטן HE Estadiamento do câncer Portuguese Стадирање рака Serbian
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| Cancer staging | |
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| Purpose | Determining the extent to which a cancer has developed |
Cancer staging is the process of determining the extent to which a cancer has grown and spread. A number from I to IV is assigned, with I being an isolated cancer and IV being a cancer that has metastasized and spread from its origin. 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).