Dr. Susan MacDonald breaks down the TNM staging system (Tumor, Nodes, Metastasis) to help patients understand their clinical ...

Marla Anderson, MD, FACS, is a board-certified surgeon who specializes in the surgical treatment of breast disease. Breast cancer is a type of cancer that starts growing in the breast tissue.

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

Staging means finding out how far ovarian cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group ovarian cancer into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

Oropharyngeal cancer is the most common type of throat cancer. After your diagnosis, you will learn the stage of the cancer. The stage lets you know how far, if at all, the cancer has spread from the ...

Reviewed by Anuj K. Patel, MD, Clinical Director of the Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in ...

Vulvar cancer is staged based on the extent it has spread. During the early stage, the cancer remains in the vulva. In its most advanced stage, the cancer has spread to distant organs and tissue.

The grade of cancer and its stage indicates two different criteria within the same diagnosis. Dr Sharma explains what they are to help avoid confusion.