What does it mean? You know until Joel was diagnosed, and even then, we had no clue either. After we got "the call", we immediately headed for the internet to see what we could find out. But it wasn't until we got the diagnosis the next week that we could really look at what Joel was up against.
There are 5 stages of cancer. Stage 0-Stage 4. In Joel's case, Stage III means that the cancer has not spread past the rectal/colon wall but there was evidence that the cancer had spread to 3 surrounding lymph nodes.
While there is a lot of information out there, one of the best pictures we found that allowed us to understand this cancer is on a .gov website. Here is the picture and a link
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