How many different stages are there of colon cancer?

Answer 1

There is a short answer to this question and lots of long answers. The short answer is, there are 4 stages of cancer. In general, stage I cancer is confined to a small area of the body, stage II is a larger cancer and may have started spreading to nearby lymph nodes, stage III may involve more nearby lymph nodes or tissues that are close by, and stage IV has spread to far areas of the body. Each type of cancer has it's own criteria to decide what the stage is; for example, a person with a cancer of the tongue will have different staging criteria than a person with colon cancer. There is no Stage V. Many types of cancer staging also have "a" or "b" added to give additional information. These letters can mean different things depending on what type of cancer is described. A person with stage IV cancer is not necessarily on the verge of death. If the cancer has spread (metastasized) to one isolated area it may be treated with surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or a combination of those. If a person with breast cancer has a single area of spread to a bone, say in the pelvis, that area could be radiated and that person could live for several years before another spot of cancer shows up. However, a person with stage IV cancer and has a heavy load of cancer, say for instance in the liver, lungs, spine, brain, may become severely ill and pass away in a relatively short amount of time. The best thing to do is to ask your doctor about your particular stage. There are so many cancer types and so many people that the possibilities are widely varying in how well a person will do.

Answer 2

Staging when used in the context of cancer refers to how advanced the cancer is at the time of surgery. It does not literally mean that the person will undergo different stages of the disease. Typically, cancer these days are evaluated by the pathologist and staging information is provided. Staging information is determined by meeting certain criteria. For instance, colon cancer that has penetrated the bowel wall is stage T3. The benefit of knowing staging is the ability to compare with survival information from studies in a more consistent manner. For instance, a stage T4 cancer will have worse prognosis than a stage T1 cancer, and if someone somewhere did a study on that particular cancer, then you can actually see the percentage survival over certain amount of years. Staging is done these days based on AJCC criteria and most cancer such as colon cancer will have a T1 to T4 stage, with sub-classification like T1b versus T1c and so on.

Answer 3

There are 4 Stages of Cancer

Stage 1- Cancer is small and it's affected within the organ it started in.

Stage 2- Cancer affected nearby lymph nodes that have cancer cells in.

Stage 3- Larger Cancer may have started spreading.

Stages 4- Cancer has spread to far areas of body.

I would like to suggest you to ask your doctor about your particular Cancer disease and particular stage.

Answer 4

As far as I know of, there is only three stages of leukemia cancer. I'm not no doctor or anything, but my papaw is right now dealing with it. His doctor told him it was in it's last stage. Which of course is stage three.

Answer 5

There are 5 different stages to colon cancer. Knowing the stage is very important to getting the proper treatment.

Answer 6

there are three stages in brain cancer

Answer 7

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