Lung Cancer

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Staging



A person is assigned a clinical "stage" of lung cancer after undergoing a diagnostic work-up. Staging describes the extent of disease. It is based on a pathology (disease) report from tissue obtained during bronchoscopy, needle (or other) biopsy, blood work, and imaging studies to rule out distant metastases.


Imaging studies include chest x-ray, abdominal ultrasound (images produced by high-frequency sound waves) of the liver, radionuclide (radioactive atom-based) bone scans,...Read the full article