WHAT ARE THE STAGES OF BREAST CANCER?

Doctors use a system called staging to describe the extent of a patient's cancer. Unique staging systems are used for different forms of cancer. In breast cancer, doctors use two systems. One is called TMN staging.

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T is for a tumor's diameter. T may be followed by a number (from 0 to 4) or letters. The higher the number, the larger the tumor. Letters, if present, indicate other information about the tumor. (An X indicates the tumor can't be studied.) N is for...

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