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>>>Dr. Harness: Stage 2 breast cancer is a step up in the system. As I have said earlier,
we have five stages 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. So stage 2 breast cancer is a cancer that is
one of a couple things, one, it can be a small cancer but the lymph node or nodes are positive
or it can be a larger cancer in which actually the lymph nodes can be negative and so within
the staging system, we talk about tumor size which is T and we have T1, T2, T3, T4. Then
also we talk about the lymph node status and it is you know N1, N2, etc., and whether there
is any spread elsewhere in the body. So typically stage 2 breast cancer is, as I said a moment
ago either a larger tumor that is lymph node negative like T2 and 0 or it could be T1c
as an example versus N1. Now, what is the treatment of stage 2 breast cancer? I am going
to be talking a lot more about that as we get into surgical options, as we get into
adjuvant options including anti-hormonal therapy and chemotherapy as well as adjuvant options
including radiation therapy. So stage 2 breast cancer requires local regional control, it
also requires treating the whole body and further details will be presented in subsequent
videos. *****
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