It's shocking that Mendy (Destiny's mom) who herself had cancer a year or two ago, is already publicly stating that Amber's cancer is stage 2.
As other Kiwis have pointed out, there is a huge difference between GRADE and STAGE of cancer.
GRADE: Can be determined from a biopsy and describes the extent to which the cells appear cancerous
STAGE: Deals with size of tumor/s and if/where they have spread, whether to local or distant sites (lymph nodes, other organs)
There's no way they were able to STAGE her cancer from just a biopsy. That comes after her hysterectomy when they are able to get a full pathology on the uterine muscles themselves, as well as look at the cells in a few pelvic lymph nodes.
Huge difference. Amber could be grade 2 and still be stage 1. How awful to receive a scary diagnosis but not be intelligent enough to correctly interpret what her doctors are telling her.
Amber very likely is using "grade" and "stage" interchangeably here. She heard "grade" on the phone and it was followed by a number so she automatically assumed grade and stage are the same thing, because stage is what people are most familiar with hearing when it comes to cancer.