The new Sassun-Mayo staging system, which integrates tumor deposit and lymph node counts, improves prognostic accuracy for patients with colon cancer compared with the standard American Joint ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

Colon cancer diagnosis involves colonoscopy, imaging, and blood tests, with staging guiding treatment decisions. Stage 1 treatment typically involves surgery, while stage 2 may include chemotherapy ...

Q: My friend was just diagnosed with colon cancer, and they said it's stage IIIB. What does that mean? How do doctors figure out the stage? A: When someone is diagnosed with colon cancer, one of the ...