Stages of cancer
When a person is diagnosed with cancer, the doctor(s) inform him about the stage to which the cancer has progressed. ‘Cancer Staging’ is nothing but a process of determining the size and spread of cancer.
Staging information is important for a doctor to be able to plan treatment and also to predict a person’s outlook (prognosis). Although each person’s situation is different, cancers with the same stage tend to have similar outlooks and are often treated the same way.