(medicine, transitive) To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).

The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.

Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage. / Towards a motion-picture or television camera.

At the front of a stage.

simple past tense and past participle of downstage

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downstage

plural of downstaging

(oncology) A reduction in the stage of a cancer, from a more to a less threatening stage.