Cancer and Tumor Terms

Cancer is found only in the area where it started.

Cancer is found in the lining of the chest wall and may also be found in the lining of the lung, the lining of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs and heart that separates the chest from…

The earliest invasive stage, in which the melanoma has grown into the skin but nothing suggests it has traveled anywhere.

Relatively few cancer cells have spread throughout the body.

Cancer is found in the nasopharynx (the upper part of the throat behind the nose) only.

Cancer that is 2 centimeters or smaller and has not spread outside the oropharynx.

Cancer is found in the pancreas only.

Cancer is found in connective tissue just under the skin of the penis.

Cancer is found in the prostate only.

Stage I is divided into stage IA, stage IB, and stage IS, and is determined after a radical inguinal orchiectomy (surgery to remove the testicle) is done.

Stage I uterine sarcoma is divided into stages IA, IB, and IC based on how far the cancer has spread into the wall of the uterus.

Cancer that is found only in the vagina (birth canal).

Stage I vulvar cancer is divided into stages IA and IB.

The tumor was completely removed by surgery and all of the following are true: (1) cancer was found only in the kidney and did not spread to blood vessels of the kidney; (2) the outer layer of the…

Stage I breast cancer is divided into stages IA and IB.

Stage I gallbladder cancer is divided into stages IA and IB.

Stage I non-small cell lung cancer is divided into stages IA and IB.

Stage I breast cancer is divided into stages IA and IB.

Stage I gallbladder cancer is divided into stages IA and IB.

Stage I non-small cell lung cancer is divided into stages IA and IB.