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Staging cancers is important to determine the prognosis of a patient and what treatment they might best benefit from. It is also vital to structuring research and developing guidelines for cancer treatment. • The most widely used system is the TNM system. T stands for tumour, and gives an impression of how large, or how locally invasive the primary tumour is. • N stands for node. This refers to the number of lymph nodes close to the tumour that are affected. • M stands for Metastases. If a tumour has spread and begins to form secondary tumours in other parts of the body it is said to have metastasised. • The number system (Stage I-IV) integrates information from the TNM system to come up with a simplified score. • References • http://cancerstaging.org/references-t...
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