Names of cancer types are not capitalised, apart from proper nouns:
adenocarcinoma squamous cell carcinoma acute lymphocytic leukaemia Hodgkin lymphoma
Also use lower case for other cancer descriptors (although the acronym uses capitals):
low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) small cell lung cancer (SCLC)
Cancer stages are described using lower case for stage and capital roman numerals:
stage 0 stage I stage II stage III stage IV
Use lower case and arabic numerals for tumour grades:
grade 1 grade 2 grade 3 grade 4
Various systems are used for staging different types of cancer. The most common system for solid tumours is the UICC TNM (tumour, node, metastasis) classification. TNM stages do not contain spaces:
