stage 4
Most advanced progression
Stage 4 designates the most advanced progression of a disease, particularly cancer, indicating it has spread extensively beyond its original site.
The term implies severity and often a poor prognosis: She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
Medical staging systems use numbers 1 through 4 to classify disease advancement, with stage 4 representing the furthest spread.
- terminalAt the endpoint
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- advancedFar along in development
- metastaticHaving spread from origin
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
second opinion · prognosis · hospice · comfort care · final · incurable · progression · tumor · lymph node · oncology · treatment · clinical trial · chemotherapy · last resort · palliative · quality of life · survival · fighting chance
- sleepsleep, sleeping, nap, doze, slumber
- Power Outagesblackout, power cut, outage, brownout, rolling blackout
- pubertypuberty, voice cracking, adolescence, growth spurts, body hair
- Kidney Diseasechronic kidney disease, kidney failure, renal failure, kidney damage, kidney function
- Cancer StagingT1, T2, T3, T4, N2
- GI-Lung Cancerslung cancer, adenocarcinoma, small cell, mesothelioma, ascending colon
disease progression
stage 4stage 1
Raised theatrical platform
early stage · localized · stage 2 · in situ · non-invasive
- stage frightFear of performing publicly
- center stagePosition of maximum attention
- sound stageIndoor film production space
- knockout stageWin-or-go-home rounds
- set the stagePrepare conditions for events
- stage namePerformer's professional alias