Cancer
Brief Summary of Stages
➤ Stage 1: cancer is relatively small and contained within the organ
➤ Stage 2: cancer has not started to spread into surrounding tissue but the tumor is more developed and may have started to spread into lymph nodes
➤ Stage 3: cancer is larger and may have started to spread into surrounding tissues and with cancer cells in the lymph nodes
➤ Stage 4: cancer has spread from where it started to another body organ, also called secondary or metastatic cancer