Understanding Lung Cancer Stages
Understanding Lung Cancer Stages
When a person is diagnosed with lung cancer, the doctor needs to evaluate the cancer to determine how serious it is and whether the cancer has spread to other regions, the size of the tumor, the growth speed, the presence of lymph nodes, the possible treatment and the prognosis. Lung cancer is divided into 4 stages with stage 1 being the earliest and stage 4 being the last, while some of these are also divided into sub stages. Each stage has different cancer aspects such as the type of the lung cancer, the size of tumor, …