One tool that doctors use to describe the stage is the TNM system. This page provides detailed information about the system used to find the stage of kidney cancer and the stage groups for kidney cancer, such as stage II or stage IV.
There are different stage descriptions for different types of cancer. Knowing the stage helps the doctor recommend the best kind of treatment, and it can help predict a patient's prognosis, which is the chance of recovery. Staging is a way of describing where the cancer is located, if or where it has spread, and whether it is affecting other parts of the body.ĭoctors use diagnostic tests to find out the cancer's stage, so staging may not be complete until all the tests are finished.
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about how doctors describe a cancer’s growth or spread.
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