Understanding Your Stage of Ewing’s Sarcoma

Doctors use staging to find out if cancer has spread. It is important to know the stage  of your cancer so that your doctor can decide what kind of treatment to recommend. There is no numbered staging for the Ewing’s family of tumors. Ewing’s tumors are grouped by whether or not they have spread.

When cancer spreads, it’s called metastatic. Even if the cancer has spread to another part of your body, it’s not called a new cancer. If Ewing’s sarcoma spreads to your lungs, it’s not considered lung cancer. It’s called metastatic Ewing’s sarcoma.

Doctors use the following 2 groups to classify the Ewing’s family of tumors.

• Localized cancer which has not spread. The tumor remains in the tissue where it developed or in nearby tissues such as muscle or tendon.

• Metastatic cancer which has spread from where it started to other parts of the body, such as the lungs, other bones, or bone marrow.