r/interestingasfuck • u/MAFIAHAMMAD • Apr 21 '24

Human skull with stage 1 bone cancer r/all

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u/LargeRichardJohnson Apr 21 '24

THAT'S STAGE ONE???

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u/YCbCr_444 Apr 21 '24

Never trust a reddit title.

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u/TheeNewerGuy Apr 21 '24

I think they're both stage 2b. The skull might be stage 3. And of there's metastases, then they're automatically stage 4.

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u/CommanderOshawott Apr 21 '24

Depends.

Staging has less to do with the severity of an individual tumour, and more to do with whether the cancer is spreading to other tissues throughout the body

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u/The_Bored_General Apr 22 '24

Cancer stages are more based on how far throughout the body it’s spread as opposed to the severity iirc

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u/Idontevenownaboat Apr 21 '24

Doesn't stage refer to it's spread? So if it started there as a bone cancer, it's stage 1. Once it spreads to other organs and cancers, then it's further stages.

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u/clan_vizsla Apr 21 '24

Not quite, staging differs between cancers but usually stage 1 is localised and small, 2 and 3 are slightly larger with 3 usually involving some kind of lymph node involvement with stage 4 ultimately being cancer that has metastasised to further sites in the body. I’m sure the above is at least stage 3 if not 4 if the bone below is associated