The presence of a lump, change in the breast contour or nipple discharge could prompt questions...

Ask a newly diagnosed patient what is troubling them and one question comes up early: oncology vs...

Rectal cancer surgery can be done robotically, laparoscopically or through an open incision, and...

Compared with open esophagectomy, the minimally invasive route puts the body through less surgical...

Most patients ask the same thing when surgery is advised for stomach cancer: how much of my...

When cancer spreads to the peritoneum, the lining of the abdomen, the surgical team needs an...

The three approaches differ mainly in the size of the cut and in how the surgeon sees and works...

Most people hear “lung cancer surgery” and picture one operation. There are really three common...

Surgery is the first and main treatment for most oral cavity cancers, including cancer of the...

For most common cancers, minimally invasive surgery cures about as many patients as open surgery...

Which operation is needed depends mainly on the size of the tumour, the risk level and whether it...

All three remove the thyroid, either part of it or the whole gland. What changes is how the...

Compared with traditional open inguinal lymphadenectomy, endoscopic surgery is associated with...

Whether a ground-glass nodule in the lung requires monitoring or surgery depends mainly on its...

A positive margin means cancer cells were found right at the cut edge of the tissue removed during...

Surgery remains the standard and primary DCIS treatment, though it isn’t compulsory in every...

A partial nephrectomy removes only the tumour along with a thin margin of healthy tissue, leaving...

A histopathology report provides important information about a cancer diagnosis, including the...

The main difference is how many lymph node groups and surrounding structures are removed....

Yes, cancer surgery can be safe for patients over 70 when they are medically fit and properly...

For many women with early-stage breast cancer, lumpectomy followed by radiation and mastectomy...

A frozen section is a quick tissue test performed during cancer surgery. A small sample is frozen,...

The Whipple procedure, pancreaticoduodenectomy in full, ranks among the toughest operations in...

Yes and when it happens, it falls into one of two very different categories. It might be a...

Yes, fertility can often be preserved in early-stage cervical cancer, through specific surgical...

Not necessarily Lung cancer surgery only removes the entire lung, a procedure called...

Lynch syndrome is a fairly common inherited genetic condition, and it significantly raises a...

Yes, diet genuinely affects colorectal cancer risk, that part's well established at this point....

HIPEC generally isn't recommended for patients whose cancer has spread beyond the abdomen, since...

Yes, H. pylori infection can increase the risk of stomach cancer. Although most infected people...

Yes, male breast cancer is biologically and clinically different from female breast cancer in...

If the tumour is still confined to the kidney, surgery is what cures it, and no drug regimen has...

Yes, stomach cancer treatment without full stomach removal may be possible in some cases, but it...

Leukoplakia isn't the precancerous patch worth worrying about. There's a family of these called...

Yes, and the numbers are hard to ignore. Hepatitis B accounts for roughly 40 to 50 percent of...

A colon polyp isn't cancer. Not yet, anyway. It's a small clump of extra tissue growing on the...

HPV-16 is now the top cause of throat cancer in a lot of the world. Not tobacco. Not alcohol. A...

Head and neck cancer survival splits hard depending on where it started and how far it's spread....

Stage decides almost everything here. Caught early, while it's still sitting in the cervix,...

Every child deserves the chance to live their lives to the fullest without the burden of cancer....

The onset of colon cancer might be a gradual process and can have symptoms that might seem similar...

Often, yes. The Whipple is a huge operation, and it's nobody's default for gallbladder cancer....

A breast self-exam is you checking both breasts for lumps, thickening, or changes in size and...

Survival rates for Liver Cancer decrease as the disease gets worse. When Liver Cancer is still in...

Recovery after transoral robotic surgery moves faster than most people expect. Most patients are...

Most nipple discharge has nothing to do with cancer. It's usually just hormones, pregnancy,...

Localized breast cancer carries a 5-year relative survival rate above 99 percent, going by SEER...

Testicular cancer has one of the cure rates of any solid tumor. The five-year relative survival...

Stage 4 lung cancer carries a 5-year relative survival rate of roughly 7 to 10 percent for...

Gallbladder cancer survival rates range from over 80% at Stage 0 to under 5% at Stage 4, based on...

Radical nephrectomy surgery is the surgical removal of an entire kidney, along with the...

Groin lymph node dissection, also called inguinal block dissection, removes lymph nodes from the...

In some cases, yes. It's called testis-sparing surgery, and it lets a surgeon remove just the...

Yes, nerve-sparing surgery is possible for many prostate cancer patients, provided the tumour...

Yes, some ovarian cancer patients can still get pregnant, through an approach called...

Yes, early-stage lung cancer can genuinely be cured without chemotherapy. For very early Non-Small...

Yes, radiation therapy can sometimes lead to a second cancer later in life, though it's genuinely...

Cancer caregivers can avoid burnout by setting boundaries that actually hold, asking for help from...

Reconstruction after head and neck surgery covers a wide range, from a simple wound closure to a...

If chemotherapy doesn't shrink a tumour, that doesn't automatically mean the treatment failed....