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The stage of a patient's colorectal cancer -- how far it has spread -- is the single best indicator of prognosis, and enables doctor and patient to decide on a treatment approach. At Memorial Sloan Kettering physicians are also increasingly looking to the genetic characteristics of an individual patient's tumor to determine the combination of treatments that is most likely to be effective. • Learn about MSK: https://www.mskcc.org • CONNECT WITH MSK • Facebook: / sloankettering • Twitter: / sloan_kettering • Instagram: / sloankettering • Request an appointment at MSK by calling 800-525-2225 or online at: https://www.mskcc.org/appointments/re... • • {partial transcript} • You mention staging being important, Dr. Saltz, talk to us about how you stage a colon cancer. • One of the first questions that patients have is what stage cancer do I have? All cancers are now staged on a 1 to 4 scale with one being the earliest stage and four being the most severe. • In simple terms, the way that I would think about colorectal cancer is stage 1. It has yet to penetrate through the thickness about the bowel wall. The cancers all start on the inside of the colon or rectum. If it penetrates into the wall, but not through it, that is stage one. If it penetrates through the wall completely, that is stage 2. If the tumor has spread through lymph nodes, which you can think of as like tiny little filters that are right around the colon areas, that tumor is stage 3. And stage 4 means that the tumor has traveled to another site. An example of stage 4 tumors would be a tumor that has spread to the liver or to the lung or to some other place in the body other than where it started. • The reason that this matters is that staging is the single best indicator of prognosis. Prognosis is the greek way of hiding that we’re asking the questions, “What does the future hold?” “What do you know about you know about the future prognosis?”
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