staging

Last reviewed 01/2018

  • stage I - single organ disease
  • stage II - regional node involvement but not across the midline
  • stage III - tumour across the midline
  • stage IV - skeletal, soft tissue or nodal metastases
  • stage IV is extended to stage IVS to group together patients with what would otherwise be group I or II, with skin, liver or bone marrow metastases, but not bone metastases