What Your Stage and Risk Group Mean
The difference between cancer grade and stage, node involvement versus distant spread, nearby growth without distant spread, what distant metastasis means, factors defining risk groups, how risk changes treatment choices, and why survival statistics are not forecasts.
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The difference between cancer grade and cancer stage
Practice this subtopicReading the T, N, and M parts of your cancer stage
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What risk means for treatment
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