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 ...

Marla Anderson, MD, FACS, is a board-certified surgeon who specializes in the surgical treatment of breast disease. Breast cancer is a type of cancer that starts growing in the breast tissue.

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 ...

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 ...

Stage 3 colon cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or through the wall of your colon. Doctors commonly treat it with surgery followed by chemotherapy. The most common staging system for colon cancer ...

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 ...

Overview of diagnosis, stage-based treatments, side effects and follow-up to help patients with cancer understand care choices and expectations. Oropharyngeal cancer develops in the oropharynx, the ...

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