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to include the liver and the lungs.)
The stages of rectal cancer are as follows:
Stage I: The tumor... cancer includes stages I-III. Metastatic rectal cancer is stage IV.
The goals of treating localized... 
(to be published in Cancer this week), clinical staging errors may at least in part underlie the fact that the researchers were unable to demonstrate a clear link between clinical stage and risk for prostate cancer...
had to have been diagnosed with localized prostate cancer (clinical stage T1 or T2) and treated by radical prostatectomy... “stage shift” over the past 20 years, and that in general today’s prostate cancer patient...
for early stage (localized) disease.
The two other important forms of treatment currently available as therapies for early stage prostate cancer are cryotherapy and high-intensity focused ultrasound...
without surgery so they will never develop into cancer. And if colorectal cancer is diagnosed in its early stages...
Colorectal Cancer
FAP
HNPCC
Laparoscopic Surgery
Polyps...
investigator of the study at Rush. “In a trial of early-stage lung cancer patients whose tumors expressed... with early-stage lung cancer, but approximately 50 percent of patients who have surgery ultimately die...
the standard treatment for people in the earlier stages of colorectal cancer. In recent years, minimally... also found that for rectal cancer, laparoscopic surgery has not been shown to be as effective as open surgery.
Hoff points...
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All cancers have “staging systems” that physicians use to describe the extent of the cancer or the degree to which it has progressed. These staging systems have changed over the years...
discover prostate cancer in its earliest stages. Men and women avoid colonoscopies. These tests probe the colon...
Throughout this blog, I have tried to emphasize the importance of getting screened for cancer... 
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