Do You Know the Different Stages of Breast Cancer? - By: Ryan Mutt

The stage of the cancer basically depends upon the size of the tumor. It is very necessary to divide the problem into various stages as to understand properly about the outcome of the disease, to draw any result about the cancer and their possible treatment.

There are different stages of cancer.

1. Stage 0 - This stage is related with DCIS and LCIS and is used to describe non-invasive breast cancers. In stage 0 there is no evidence of non cancerous abnormal cell or cancerous cells. There are no other abnormal cells which will break out of the part of the breast or invading neighboring normal tissue.

2. Stage I is related with the invasive breast cancer in which there is no involvement of lymph nodes and the measurement of the tumor may be up to 2 centimeters.

3. Stage II is divided into two subcategories known as IIA and IIB.

4. Stage IIA is related with invasive breast cancer in which there is no tumor in the breast but in the axillary lymph nodes cancer cells are found and the measurement of tumor is 2 centimeters or it may be less and it may spread to the axillary lymph nodes. It is also possible that the tumor may be larger than 2 centimeters but it is not larger than 5 centimeters and it is also not spread to the axillary lymph nodes.

5. In stage II B the tumor is of the size of 2 centimeters but it is not larger than the size of 5 centimeter and it has also spread to the axillary lymph nodes or it is also possible that the tumor is 5 centimeters but it has not spread to the axillary lymph nodes.

6. Stage III is divided into subcategories which are known as IIIA, IIIB and IIIC.

7. In stage IIIA usually there is no tumor. Cancer is found in the lymph nodes or spread to the lymph nodes near the breast bone. The tumor may be 5 centimeters or smaller or it may be larger than 5 centimeters which are spread to axillary lymph nodes and are clumped together or sticking to other structures. It describes invasive breast cancer.

8. Stage IIIB considers inflammatory breast cancer.

9. In this stage the tumor spread to chest wall or the skin of the breast, it has spread above or below the collar bone and to lymph nodes near the breastbone

10. In stage IV it affects other organs of the body also like lungs, bone, liver or brain.

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