Is Breast Cancer Staging Obsolete?

S.A. Narod

doi:10.3747/co.19.1158

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Editorial

1 August 2012

Is Breast Cancer Staging Obsolete?

Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 790 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 1N8, Canada

Curr. Oncol.2012, 19(4), 195-196;https://doi.org/10.3747/co.19.1158

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The stages of breast cancer range from 0 to IV. In proper usage, “stage” describes the cancer at diagno-sis, although “stage” is also loosely used to describe cancer progression. For example, a stage II cancer is sometimes said to have progressed to become stage IV (but not stage III). [...]

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