If you are diagnosed with lung cancer, your physician
will probably tell you what stage your lung cancer is. Lung cancer staging will
find out which treatment or medication interventions will be utilized and
probability of long-term prognosis.
Moreover, the American Joint Committee on Cancer proposed
a system in 1973 for lung cancer based on the system of TMN that was first
projected by Denoix in 1946. The system for lung cancer staging was amended in
1986 and in 1997. Also, this scheme is NOT used for small cell lung cancer.
Here are the Lung Cancer Staging and their descriptions:
