STAGES AND CLASSIFICATION

Stage and Grade
• lowercase stage and grade.
Type
• Lowercase type when used as an adjective. Use Arabic or roman numerals or capital letters, depending in type referred to.
E.g. type 2 diabetes mellitus
type II hyperlipidemia
type A personality
Cancer Stage and Grade
• use roman numerals for cancer tages. For subdivisions of cancer stages. For subdivisions of cancer stages, add capital letters on the line and Arabic suffixes without internal spaces or hyphens.
E.g stage 0 stage I, stage IA stage stage II, stage II3
• Used Arabic numerals for grade.
E.g. grade 1 grade 2 grade 3