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There are different staging systems that doctors can use for liver cancer. The TNM staging system is one of these. TNM stands for Tumour, Node, Metastasis. It describes: the size of the primary tumour ...

Doctors use different systems to stage liver cancer. This page is about stage 3 cancer, which is part of the number staging system. This system has 4 stages, stage 1 to stage 4. This page also tells ...

Within these categories, there are subsections. For instance, M1b means the cancer spread to 2 or more organs. Your doctor determines your TNM categories from looking at test results (blood tests ...

Under the SEER classification system, "distant disease" and "stage 4 cancer" are synonymous. The one drawback to the SEER approach is that stage 4a and 4b lung cancer ar ...