L1 meaning during staging.

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Hi all, every time I see correspondence from the hospital on my app there is another letter added to my diagnosis! Talk about anxiety provoking. So..... final stage T3 N1b R0 M0 L1.

Never seen L before....... seems to mean different things for different cancers...... I think it means some lymphatic vessels involved? 3 out of 14 nodes had traces involved. 

Poorly differentiated, previously was staged as moderately differentiated but upgraded post histology.

Keep beating myself up that I didn't catch this sooner but had no symptoms til anaemic and was too young for bowel screening. 

Overall, pretty lucky it was found when it was it seems. Onwards to Capox...........!