Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

Uterine cancer is staged using the FIGO and TNM systems based on tumor size, lymph nodes, and metastasis. Stage 1 uterine cancer may involve abnormal vaginal bleeding and is often treated with surgery ...

The extent of the bladder cancer — how far it has spread — matters. Your care team needs to know if your cancer sits on or in the first lining of your bladder (non-muscle invasive), if it goes into ...

This fact sheet explains how lung cancer is staged, and what each stage means. Lung cancer staging can be complex, but this fact sheet is intended for patient education. Our easy-to-read fact sheets ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

Oropharyngeal cancer is the most common type of throat cancer. After your diagnosis, you will learn the stage of the cancer. The stage lets you know how far, if at all, the cancer has spread from the ...

A survivor is sharing the colorectal cancer symptoms she missed in the hopes of helping others. About 150,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, which occurs when cells in the ...

A millennial woman was devastated after being diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer at just 31, but she never could have imagined that her diagnosis would progress to stage 4 three months later. In ...