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Clinical Staging of Liver Cancer and the Significance of Small Liver Cancer, November 6, 1996

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### Clinical Staging of Liver Cancer and the Significance of Small Liver Cancer, November 6, 1996

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  1. Clinical Staging of Liver Cancer and the Significance of Small Liver Cancer, November 6, 1996

Clinical Staging of Liver Cancer and the Significance of Small Liver Cancer, November 6, 1996

  1. Staging

Stage I: Detected only by ultrasound and CT, with no clinical manifestations or physical signs of liver cancer.

Stage II: Intermediate between Stage I and Stage III.

Stage III: Characterized by obvious jaundice, ascites, cachexia, or extrahepatic metastasis.

These are the staging standards established domestically in 1997.

  1. Meaning of small liver cancer

Domestically defined as having a diameter less than 5 cm; if there are two tumors, their combined diameter must be less than 5 cm; at Changhai Hospital, small liver cancer is defined as having a diameter less than 3 cm.

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