Staging of prostate cancer is a means to determine the degree of damage the carcinogenic cells have gone. Prostate cancer starts in the prostate but in a severe case, the bones and lymph nodes are affected. Staging of prostate cancer also helps in the determination of the treatment therapy. There are 4 stages of cancer that are derived from both the pathological and clinical stage of prostate cancer;
Stage1; the cancer is small and only in the prostate. No Symptoms during this stage. It’s the beginning of the primary tumor
Stage 2; both lobes of the prostate are affected here, but the cancer is still within the prostate. Swelling of the prostate gland starts from here.
Stage 3; in this stage, the lymph gland