Just had an e mail from my friend
trying to understand it
Explanation here
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/mouth-cancer/stages-types-grades/stages-oropharyngeal
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
TNM8 and TNM7 refers to types of staging systems. 8 being the more recent The way HPV positive cancer is staged has been evolving
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
A lot of info
Yes. It’s medical jargon. It’s its own language.
What it means to the patient is that the cancer is more than 4cm large and is advanced into surrounding tissue, there is cancer in a lymph node and distant metastasis.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
