Dr. Victor Vogel answers the question: What are the stages of breast cancer? — -- Question: What are the different stages of breast cancer? Answer: There are five stages of breast cancer, ...

Marla Anderson, MD, FACS, is a board-certified surgeon who specializes in the surgical treatment of breast disease. Breast cancer is a type of cancer that starts growing in the breast tissue.

The extent of the bladder cancer — how far it has spread — matters. Your care team needs to know if your cancer sits on or in the first lining of your bladder (non-muscle invasive), if it goes into ...

You’ve probably heard of the four stages of cancer—but there’s another even earlier stage that experts say can make a huge difference in treating the disease. Breast cancer is one of the few types of ...

Gastric cancer often develops through a gradual sequence of changes, beginning with superficial gastritis and advancing through chronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and precancerous ...

The same cellular renewal that keeps our bodies healthy might also fuel the growth of cancer. A UC Merced biologist has found that the brain could hold the key to stopping it. Professor Néstor Oviedo, ...

Stage 2 pancreatic cancer includes stages 2A and 2B. Stage 2A is when the cancer tumor has grown to over 4 centimeters (cm). Stage 2B is when it has spread from the pancreas to up to three nearby ...