There are two main types of lung cancer: small cell and non-small cell -- each is staged differently. Knowing the stage helps your doctor choose the right treatments for you.
Your doctor can stage your tumor with these letters, and then be more specific with the numbers 0-4.
They might also use X as a number. This means the tumor can’t be measured or it’s unclear how far it has spread.Small-Cell Lung Cancer Stages One way to describe NSCLC is by its clinical or pathologic stage. Your doctor might use imaging scans to take pictures of the inside of your body to see what clinical stage the cancer is. In order to confirm the diagnosis, they may do a, in which they take a small piece of tissue from the tumor and look at it under a microscope.
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