What are the Different Stages of Cancer?
Several different systems are used for ranking cancers by stage in the process of developing a treatment program. Staging cancers is important, because it allows a doctor to assess a cancer and use standardized terminology to describe it, so that the medical team can work together to develop the best course of treatment. Stages are ranked in order of severity, with slow or non-aggressive cancers at the bottom of the scale, and fast-moving, severe cancers at the top.
