The first standard action once cancer is diagnosed is "staging": an assessment of how far it has spread throughout the body. Lymphoma is traditionally staged according to what is known as the Ann Arbor system, which stages cancer between Stage I (localized disease) and Stage IV (metastasis, or spread, throughout the body). This is similar to the TNM system used in other solid cancers.
For lymphoma, the Ann Arbor stages mean:
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Friday, December 24, 2010
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