A word about stageing
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Callaloo
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The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has issued new staging guidelines (as of this year), and have done away with the IVa stage. It's now all stage IV, whether the distant site is an organ or lymph node. I see some doctors are still using the old terminology. This can be deceiving, making patients think their IVa prognosis is any better than stage IV. It's not, sorry to say.
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Good point
You make a good point, Callaloo. It seems like they change staging guidelines fairly frequently. I know about two months after my husband was diagnosed as IVa, that things changed and had be been diagnosed after that, he would have been considered a stage III instead.
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