Cancer stage

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neoplasm /cancer classification /staging

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• A prognosis associated with a cancer stage is only a general guide, not an infallible prediction, a sentence, or a guarantee.
• Identifying the cancer stage is one of the most important factors in selecting treatment options.
• The breast cancer stage is one of the most important factors in making a prognosis (outlook) of your recovery, of the chance of the cancer coming back, or of it spreading to other organs.
• While cancer stage is the most widely accepted and commonly used predictor of survival for cancer, electronic claims databases contain large amounts of information on cancer patients.
• There are two ways of writing cancer stage.
• The higher the cancer stage, the more the cancer has spread and the lower your chance for cure.

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