Difference between revisions of "Breast cancer staging"

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===Definitions===
===Definitions===
Definitions:<ref name=acs_website>URL: [http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/DetailedGuide/breast-cancer-staging http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/DetailedGuide/breast-cancer-staging]. Accessed on: 8 July 2010.</ref>
Definitions:<ref name=acs_website>URL: [http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/DetailedGuide/breast-cancer-staging http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/DetailedGuide/breast-cancer-staging]. Accessed on: 8 July 2010.</ref>
*Isolated tumour cells: <=0.2 mm ''or'' <=200 cells -- in a single cross-section. †
*[[Isolated tumour cell]]s: <=0.2 mm ''or'' <=200 cells -- in a single cross-section. †
*Micrometastasis: <=0.2 cm ''and'' ( >0.2 mm ''or'' >200 cells ).
*Micrometastasis: <=0.2 cm ''and'' ( >0.2 mm ''or'' >200 cells ).
*Macrometastasis: >0.2 cm.
*Macrometastasis: >0.2 cm.