Kidney Cancer Grade 2. There is no sign that the cancer has spread outside of the kidney. How is ccrcc diagnosed.
Kidney cancers are usually given a grade from 1 to 4. Again the stages reflect how large the primary tumour has become and whether the cancer has spread to lymph nodes or other areas of the body. The seer database however does not group cancers by ajcc tnm stages stage 1 stage 2 stage 3 etc.
About one quarter of patients have grade 3 rcc.
There are 4 number stages of 1 to 4. When kidney cancer metastasizes stages 3 and 4 indicate that the cancer has metastasized or. Stage 2 means the cancer is still contained to the kidney but the tumor is larger than 7 centimeters. Kidney cancer is typically given a clinical stage based on the results of a physical exam biopsy and imaging tests described in tests for kidney cancer.