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Post a new topicby contentuser on Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:35 am

Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Pancreatic Cancer(Free Handout)

Pancreatic Cancer Staging


Staging is a method of determining the progress of cancer in a patient. Once doctors know how far along the cancer is, they can decide on the best course of treatment. In the staging process, the tumor characteristics and the extent to which the cancer has spread to other parts of the body is evaluated. There are a number of aspects to staging. A simplified approach puts patients into three grou...Read the full article
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