Mesothelioma Staging Systems-How Do You Stage Mesothelioma

The most common types of cancer are different staging systems have been developed for physicians and physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of individual cases of the research on cancer.

Mesothelioma is the only form of mesothelioma, which has successfully organized, because it is the most common type of disease.There are three different classification systems used to determine the degree of pleural mesothelioma, which measured each of these three systems development performed various aspects of cancer, including tumor size, the height of the spread of metastases (), and the likely involvement of lymph nodes.
The stage at diagnosis of mesothelioma largely determined by the type of treatment prescribed by your doctor.

Butchart System

The Butchart System is the oldest staging system for malignant mesothelioma is the most commonly used by doctors and specialists for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The Butchart System is the size of the tumor (mass) and are the basis of malignant mesothelioma into four stages:

• Level 1 - malignant mesothelioma has hit the right or left side of the chest (pleura) lining and can be seen in the membrane.

• Level 2 - malignant mesothelioma was found in the chest on both sides of the body and may also in heart, stomach, esophagus, or have moved on both sides. Nodes may be affected.

• Level 3 - malignant mesothelioma has reached the abdominal cavity (peritoneum). Nodes past the breast may be affected.

• Level 4 - malignant mesothelioma has reached other organs, and entered the blood.

TNM

The TNM system is a modern staging of malignant mesothelioma. The TNM system is the extent of tumor metastasis is based, and the involvement of lymph nodes. It shares the TNM system malignant mesothelioma into four stages:
• Level 1 - Malignant mesothelioma is present in the left chest and right (pleura) and may have formed lung metastases in the sack around the heart (pericardium) or the membrane on the same page. The lymph nodes in phase 1 are not involved.

• Level 2 - Malignant mesothelioma has reached from one side of the chest lymph nodes near the area of the lung on the same side as the cancer. Cancer metastasis diaphragm membrane (pericardium) around the heart or lung on the same side as the primary tumor.

• Level 3 - malignant mesothelioma has penetrated the lining of the chest, heart, esophagus, muscle, ribs and vital organs in the chest on the same side as the cancer. The lymph nodes are involved or not in this phase.

• Level 4 - is the area of malignant pleural mesothelioma, and metastatic lymph nodes on the opposite side, where the tumor is located. She may have been present in the chest cavity and lungs of both parties, or may have spread to the abdomen.

Brigham System

The Brigham system is the most advanced of the three systems for staging malignant mesothelioma. The system of Brigham examines several variables, such as the involvement of lymph nodes removed, and the operational capability of a malignant mesothelioma (resection) at. For this reason it is not used very often in the process of mesothelioma when the cancer is urgently needed to be rare. The system divides Brigham malignant mesothelioma into four stages:

• Level 1 - malignant mesothelioma tumor is still resectable (can be surgically removed) and lymph nodes are not affected.

• Level 2 - Malignant Mesothelioma cancer is still operable, but the lymph nodes are affected today.

• Level 3 Mesothelioma - Mesothelioma is a malignant tumor is unresectable and malignant heart, through the entire wall of the chest, abdomen or diaphragm. Lymph nodes or not interested.

• Level 4 - malignant mesotheliomas are not completely resectable tumors and metastases (spread throughout the body).

Malignant mesothelioma of the production process

When mesothelioma is diagnosed by a physician or a specialist should be to determine the extent of cancer and how it spread. In most cases, they use imaging techniques to see into the chest or abdomen to determine the staging of malignant mesothelioma. The imaging options can be used doctors:
• Chest X-ray
• CT of the chest and / or abdominal
• MRI of the breast and / or abdominal
• PET in the thorax and / or abdominal