How many stages of prostate cancer are there?

The two types of staging that exist in the Prostate Cancer Treatment are explained in detail below.

Clinical Staging - DRE, Gleason Score and PSA testing  forms the basis for Clinical Staging. Once these tests are conducted, the reports signal the doctor as to what will be the next step. The decision regarding conducting MRI, CT Scans, x-rays etc. are taken based on the results recorded in the reports. If at all, the cancer is at a stage such that scans are needed, it will help the doctor to figure out this stage in a better manner.

Pathologic Staging - Pathologic Staging is primarily based on the information that is gathered at the time of surgery, as well as based on the laboratory results, which is medical language is known as pathology, of the specific prostate issue that is discarded at the time of surgery. Almost all the surgeries that are taken place to heal this illness indulges in removing the entire prostate and few lymph nodes that are significant. Examining these removed lymph nodes can help understand pathologic staging in a simplified manner. 

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A tool used by the professionals is the TNM system. With the help of the diagnostic tests and results doctors try to find answer to the following questions.

 T : What can be said about the size of the tumor and its exact location?

N : Has the tumor already spread to the lymph nodes? If yes, where exactly and to how many nodes?

M : Has the illness metastasized to rest of the body parts? If this is the case, where in the entire body and up to what extent?

These results are then used so that the cancer stage can be determined with complete accuracy. 

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