Staging Lung Cancer. As with most cancers staging is an important determinant of treatment and prognosis. In general more advanced stages of cancer are less amenable to treatment and have a worse prognosis.
There is also a simplified staging system called limited and extensive stage for small cell lung cancer. Standard of care lung cancer staging ideally should be performed in a multidisciplinary meeting using the information provided both from ct and fdg pet ct with further inputs from the histopathologic findings pathological staging. Small cell lung cancer stages are classified in two ways.
N stands for node involvement.
This is based on the size of the primary tumor lymph node involvement and distant metastasis. It helps determine how serious the cancer is and how best to treat it. Small cell lung cancer stages are classified in two ways. Find out about the number stages.
