Stages Of Cancer
By: Administrator
Updated: July 22, 2010
There are usually 4 stages of cancer. But it depends on which cancer you are talking about and which staging system the doctor is using. There are different ways of grouping cancers. Some staging systems have more groups and some less.
Here is a brief summary of what the stages mean:
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
