SEER Training Modules
11/27/12 - The NCI is working on updating materials.

Quiz: Introduction to Summary Staging

The concept of describing disease by stage or extent of disease was introduced recently by the World Health Organization.
True False
Staging is a common language developed by medical professionals to communicate information about a disease to others.
True False
Staging uses coded format, such as a numerical system, for describing.
True False
Extent of disease is a type of classification and pertains to an individual case.
True False
Staging translates extent of disease classification about individual cancers into groups that can be studied or evaluated for prognostic significance.
True False
Staging is helpful to determine treatment options.
True False
In addition to stage, histology, grade of the tumor, age, sex, race, and the efficacy of therapy play a part in determining the patient's prognosis and quality of survival.
True False
There are several staging systems developed by different professional groups.
True False
The concept of a classification scheme that would encompass all aspects of cancer in terms of primary tumor, regional lymph nodes, and distant metastasis was first introduced by the National Cancer Institute.
True False
The pathology report is the only document to be used to assign a stage to a cancer case.
True False