DrugAlertList - Cancer - Prostate Cancer

The stages of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer has four basic stages which are

Stage 1: the cancer is very small and completely inside the prostate gland which feels normal when a rectal examination is done
Stage 2: the cancer is still inside the prostate gland, but is larger and a lump or hard area can be felt when a rectal examination is done
Stage 3: the cancer has broken through the covering of the prostate and may have grown into the neck of the bladder or the seminal vesicle
Stage 4: the cancer has spread to another part of the body

The commonest site of prostate cancer spread is to the bones. It does not often spread to other body organs.

Sometimes these stages are called A - D (with A being Stage 1), particularly if you are being treated in North America where the system is called the Dukes'-Jewett Staging System.
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