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Screening: Test or procedures to check for cancer or a disease when there are no symptoms.

Sentinel lymph node biopsy: A dye or radioactive substance injected near the tumor drains and into nearest lymph node to which cancer is likely to spread. This lymph node, once identified, is removed.


Stage: A system to identify how far the cancer has spread.

Systemic: Reaching and affecting tissues and cells all over the body.