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pathological staging  listen  (PA-thuh-LAH-jih-kul STAY-jing)

  A method used to find out the stage of cancer (amount or spread of cancer in the body) by removing tissue samples during surgery or a biopsy. The pathological stage is based on how different from normal the cells in the samples look under a microscope.