Saturday, August 20, 2011

Why Do Doctors Need Cancer Staging?



Generally, after the patient begins to accommodate the idea that a cancer will begin to ask how many years he will live longer, and what treatment is suitable for njega.Liječnik will be asked about whether he will be able to to answer the patient after the staging of cancer.

Staging of cancer relates to the identification of cancer evolution, to see how the body is affected by this disease. It is of no importance in the process of staging cancers: lung, colon, rectum, etc., the cancer is set at a predetermined criteria, and this applies to all types of cancer.

TNM staging is one of the most important ways of staging cancers. Each year, the American Joint Committee on Cancer gathers its members and during the conference they talk about each type of cancer, the research and new treatment options for cancer. They also determine the details of cancer staging for each type of cancer.

T category determines how much the cancer has spread to the affected organ, and if other organs are affected by cancer too.

N category refers to the lymph nodes and shows whether or not to get hit by the disease.















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