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Stadium or Stage of Cervical Cancer

stage of cervical cancerThe following stages are used in the classification of cervical cancer:

Stage O

Stage O or carcinoma in situ. Carcinoma in situ is very early cancer. Abnormal cells are found only in the first layer of cells lining the cervix, and do not invade deeper tissues of the cervix.

Stage I

Cancer involves the cervix but has not spread to the surroundings.

Ia: a very small amount of cancer, visible only by microscope, is already in the deeper tissue of the cervix.

Ib: a larger amount of cancer found in this tissue.

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