Grade vs Stage

Question 1

What term describes how FAR the tumor cells have spread

Answer 1

Staging

Question 2

What term describes how FAST/AGGRESSIVELY the tumor is growing

Answer 2

Grading

Question 3

Who decides the type of cancer based on the biopsy?

Answer 3

Pathologist

Question 4

What is the range of Staging as determined by the American Joint Committee on Cancer?

Answer 4

0-IV

Question 5

What stage?
Pre‐invasive ‐ In Situ

Answer 5

0

Question 6

What stage?
Limited to organ of origin

Answer 6

I

Question 7

What stage?
In same anatomic region; may spread to area immediately near the original organ; may have spread to LOCAL lymph nodes

Answer 7

II

Question 8

What stage?
Spread to region surrounding primary organ. High probability of metastatic spread

Answer 8

III

Question 9

What stage?
Metastasis to distant sites

Answer 9

IV

Question 10

What is the least desireable stage?

Answer 10

IV

Question 11

What stage?
Precancerous, Hyperplasia - cell starting to change shape

Answer 11

0

Question 12

What stage is the start of lymph node involvement?

Answer 12

II

Question 13

What grades?

Answer 13

I-IV

Question 14

What does TNM staging stand for?

Answer 14

tumor, node, metastasis

Question 15

TNM Staging - which means no evidence of tumor?

Answer 15

T0

Question 16

TNM Staging - Tumor number range?

Answer 16

T0 -T4

Question 17

TNM Staging - no lymph node involvement?

Answer 17

N0

Question 18

TNM Staging - Node range?

Answer 18

N0-N3

Question 19

TNM Staging - no metastatic lesion seen

Answer 19

M0

Question 20

TNM Staging - Metastasis range?

Answer 20

M0-M1

Question 21

What grading?
Cells are well-differentiated, low grade

Answer 21

I

Question 22

What grading?
Cells are moderately-differentiated, intermediate grade

Answer 22

II

Question 23

What grading?
Cells are poorly-differentiated, high grade

Answer 23

III

Question 24

What grading?
Cells are anaplastic

Answer 24

IV