N Stage Lung Cancer. This means whether or not your cancer has spread to your lymph nodes near your lungs. And it is sometimes used for small cell lung cancer.
A rarer but more aggressive kind is called small cell lung cancer. Some 85 of lung cancers are non small cell lung cancers nsclc. This means whether or not.
In stage iv the cancer has metastasized or spread beyond the lungs into other areas of the body.
Some 85 of lung cancers are non small cell lung cancers nsclc. Doctors use the tnm system to create a number staging system with stages 1 to 4. The tnm staging system is the most common way for doctors to stage non small cell lung cancer. The numbered stages are used mostly with the more common nsclc.
