Gastric Cancer

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Staging


Staging is a method of judging the progress of the cancer in a patient. That is, once doctors know how far along the cancer is, they can decide on the best course of treatment. The staging process looks at the tumor and the extent to which it has spread to other parts of the body. There are a number of aspects to staging.


A simplified approach puts patients into six groups or stages based on how far the cancer has advanced:






Stage 0

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