Stage 1 Breast Cancer

The following TNM stage represents the stage 1 breast cancer grouping:

T1 N0 M0

In general, the above TNM stage can be summarized below as:

· The tumor is less than 2 centimeters in size, lymph nodes are not involved, and there is no metastasis to distant parts of the body.

This stage may also be described as early breast cancer. The survival rate for this stage is 100 %.

I can’t emphasis this enough:

EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER IS THE BEST WAY TO IMPROVE SURVIVAL!!!!

Remember your

self breast exams,
clinical breast exams,
and mammograms!!!

This is a lot of information. Please remember that I am not a doctor or health care provider. This information is being provided after hours upon hours of reading from multiple sources in an effort to give you a broad scope of information and hopefully better understanding about breast cancer. It is not intended to diagnosis or treat breast cancer.

Treatments for breast cancer are different, pending the different characteristics that the tumor may have, the health of an individual with breast cancer, and many other factors. Click here for more information on what a doctor and patient may discuss or choose for stage 1 breast cancer treatments.

Truly reading all of the numbers, breast cancer statistics, and about any stage of breast cancer can seem overwhelming. Below are some words of encouragement for you, or for someone you may know who is in the breast cancer battle.

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