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The stages of Lung cancer is important because it determines how a particular cancer should be treated, since lung-cancer therapies are geared toward specific stages. Also, it is critical in estimating the prognosis of a given patient, with higher-stage cancers generally having a worse prognosis than lower-stage cancers. The stages of cancer depends on its size and its presence or absence of metastases. The stages are: stage 1-cancer is confined to the lung stage 2 and 3-the cancer is confined to the chest stage 4-cancer has spread from the chest to other parts of the bodstage 2 and 3-the cancer is confined to the chest stage 4-cancer has spread from the chest to other parts of the body
 * The Stages of Lung Cancer **