I have a question about Staging
 

Maybe someone here can help me because I'm a little confused (nothing unusual for me). I was reading about staging in cancer and the article said that if your tumor is 2cm or under and you have no nodes involved that you are considered a stage 1. My tumor was 2cm, clear margins, no nodes involved and yet on my chart at the oncs office it says that I am stage 2. Like I said, I'm a little confused. I'm almost afraid to ask my onc when I see him on Friday because he says I always have something new going on and want answers. Maybe someone can shed some light on this, please?
Thanks and hugs

If your tumor is under 2 cm with no nodes - that is stage 1. At 2cm and no nodes, you are Stage 2A (just).

Maybe this will help
 

I'm not sure if you saw this message further down the thread, but hope it helps.

New Staging info
Brenda_D

Thanks ladies, I appreciate it!

Nitewind, you should not have to be afraid to ask questions of your onc. But I know what you mean!

Ok, I am going to "piggy-back" off of this question. I has a question also regarding nodes at the time of staging. When I had my axillary nodes removed, there were 3+ out of five. The entire clump of nodes was removed, yet there were only five present. I asked my onc if it was worse to have three out of five, say, then 3 out of 15 (based on percentage. He said no- that 3 was 3. I don't understand this, because it seems only logical that if I had had more nodes in the clump that more would have been positive. Does that make sense? Not that I am trying to up my stage or anything, I just wonder if I was more progressed?

Love, Kelly