Pathological staging
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| Term | Pathological staging |
| Short definition | pathological staging - (pronounced) (PA-thuh-LAH-jih-kul STAY-jing) A method of determining the stage of cancer (how much or how far the cancer has spread in the body) by taking a sample of tissue during surgery or a biopsy. The pathological stage is based on how different the cells in the specimens look under the microscope |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
| Comments | |
pathological staging - (pronounced) (PA-thuh-LAH-jih-kul STAY-jing) A method of determining the stage of cancer (how much or how far the cancer has spread in the body) by taking a sample of tissue during surgery or a biopsy. The pathological stage is based on how different the cells in the specimens look under the microscope
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