A stage-four cancer diagnosis once sounded like the end of the road – after all, there is no stage five. When Joe Biden’s ...

If you have melanoma skin cancer, your doctor will say it’s in one of five stages as a way to describe how far along it is. These are numbers, going from 0 through Roman numerals I to IV. Stage ...

With melanoma, catching it in the earlier stages increases the chances of survival, so quickly determining severity helps doctors determine the best course of treatment.

Staging is commonly used in melanoma diagnosis and treatment to indicate the advancement and severity of cancer in a patient. Melanoma stages range between 0-IV based on the TNM (tumour, nodes ...

Mom's Stage 4 Melanoma Spread from Fingernail to Brain, Says She 'Begged for' Scans That Could Have Caught It Sooner Kelly Heather, 38, ended up needing brain surgery for a tumor — and it ...