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Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Leukemia(Free Handout)

Staging



Most cancer patients are assigned a clinical "stage" after undergoing a diagnostic work-up. American physicians often use the four-stage TNM system—a classification system developed and recently revised by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC; International Union Against Cancer). According to this system, staging is based on the size of the tumor and how f...Read the full article