Determining Stage of cancer

If the cancer has been found, inspection of staging (staging) of cancer helps the doctor in planning appropriate treatment and determine prognosis history of the disease. Staging can be done using:
1. Scanning / scanning (eg liver or bone scanning)
2. The coloring of the network so that if there is cancer, pathological tissue can be detected.
3. CT (Computed Tomography) or MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
4. Mediastinoskopi
5. Bone marrow biopsy.
Sometimes surgery is needed to determine the stage of the cancer. For example, a surgery (abdominal surgery) allows the surgeon to lift or treat colon cancer, while determines the spread of cancer to nearby lymph nodes.