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Breast cancer staging
Breast cancer stages
The stages of breast cancer
Information that helps determine your breast cancer stage
Tests and procedures used to stage your breast cancer
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What are the stages of breast cancer?
What information is used to decide the breast cancer stage?
What are the kinds of breast cancer staging?
What do the breast cancer stages mean?
What does my breast cancer stage mean for me?
The stages of breast cancer
Information that helps determine your breast cancer stage
Tests and procedures used to stage your breast cancer
Content
What are the stages of breast cancer?
What information is used to decide the breast cancer stage?
What are the kinds of breast cancer staging?
What do the breast cancer stages mean?
What does my breast cancer stage mean for me?
Information that helps determine your breast cancer stage
Your doctor determines your breast cancer stage by considering:
- The size of your tumor
- Whether cancer cells have spread to lymph nodes under your arm (axillary lymph nodes)
- Whether cancer cells have spread to other parts of your body
- How aggressive your cells appear when viewed under a microscope (tumor grade)
- Whether your cancer cells have receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone
- Whether your cancer cells have a gene mutation that causes them to make excess HER2 protein
- Results of gene expression profiling tests (Oncotype DX, MammaPrint, others)
