Stagesofcancer

=Why staging is important= =Staging is important because it usually tells the specialist which treatments you need.If a cancer is= =just in one place then a local treatment such a surgery or radiotherapy could be enough to get rid= =of it completely. A local treatment treats only one area of the body.= =If a cancer has spread then local treatment alone will not be enough. A 'systemic' treatment will be= =needed as well. Systemic treating treats the whole body. Chemotherapy and hormone therapy are= =systemic treatment because they circulate throughout the body and the bloodstream.=
 * =**Stage 2** usually means the cancer has not started to spread into surrounding tissue, but the tumor is larger than in stage 1. So=
 * =**Stage 1** usually means a cancer is relatively small and contained within the organ it started in=
 * =metimes stage 2 means that cancer cells have spread into lymph nodes close to the tumor=
 * =**Stage 3** usually means the cancer is larger. It may have started to spread into surrounding tissues and there are cancer cells in the lymph nodes in the area=
 * =**Stage 4** means the cancer has spread from where it started to another body organ - this is also called secondary or metastatic cancer=