http://oralcancerfoundation.org/facts/stages_cancer.htm

Staging also dictates treatments (at least if you want to follow what the big NCI designated institutions are all doing.) There are NCCN treatment guidelines for every stage. And the current standards of care for most, except very early stage OC's, are chemo and rads. You can read the NCCN guidelines for treatment on the main OCF web site.

http://oralcancerfoundation.org/treatment/guidelines.htm

We keep it all here on the OCF web site and get regular updates from our NCCN partner so you don't have to chase all over the web looking for something you can trust.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.