A liquid biopsy is a blood test that looks for traces of cancer in the bloodstream. Tumours shed...

Colon cancer is one of the most detectable cancers in its early stages. It usually starts as a...

There's no single price tag for rectal cancer surgery. The cost tracks the clinical picture, which...

Plenty of rectal cancers go straight to surgery, no radiation first. It comes down to stage and...

There's a real difference between the two. An adrenal tumour is any growth on the adrenal gland,...

Kidney cancer can involve both kidneys, but this is far less common than patients fear when they...

Gastric adenocarcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumour arise in the same organ but represent...

Colorectal cancer has traditionally been considered a disease of people above 50. That picture is...

Only 15 to 20 percent of pancreatic cancer patients qualify for Whipple surgery. The rest have...

In oral cancer surgery, neck dissection is part of the same operation in most cases, not a...

Head and neck cancer can recur after robotic surgery, including TORS. The risk depends heavily on...

Most cancer pain is chronic and managed with medication. But some pain in cancer patients signals...

The appendix sits next to the colon, but cancer arising there is a different disease entirely....

In a narrow but clearly defined group of patients, yes. Very early, low-grade uterine cancer in...

Bladder preservation is possible in bladder cancer, and for the majority of patients it's the...

Robotic lung cancer surgery is available in India. Not everywhere, but at select surgical oncology...

Total thyroidectomy removes the entire thyroid gland. Partial, also called hemithyroidectomy or...

Early stage cervical cancer can often be treated without removing the uterus. For very early...

It can. But not often, and not permanently. Stage I disease on active surveillance has a...

Resection is better when the liver behind the tumour is healthy enough to function after part of...

For locally advanced esophageal cancer, chemo isn't just given before surgery. It's given to make...

Most planned colon cancer surgeries don't result in a permanent colostomy bag. For right...

Prostate cancer surgery is not always necessary. Many prostate cancers are slow growing, low...

Many cancer survivors can donate blood, but not all. The answer splits cleanly by cancer type....

Adjuvant therapy is everything that happens after surgery to stop the cancer coming back. The...

Most patients who had a lumpectomy will need radiation afterwards, while those who had a...

Cancer rewires the way the body uses food. So eating more, even of the right things, doesn't...

Robotic cancer surgery is widely available to international patients in India, including those...

Surgery doesn't automatically stop. The surgeon looks at what's there, how far it goes, and...

Immunosuppression means the immune system can't fight infections the way it should. During cancer...

Frozen section is a quick tissue test done while surgery is still in progress. The surgeon sends a...

The liver is the most common first stop for cancers that spread. It's all about blood flow. Blood...

Most cancer patients can still eat non vegetarian food during treatment, with lean fish, chicken...

A surgical drain is a small flexible tube placed inside the body at the end of an operation. The...

Ascites is a build up of fluid inside the abdominal cavity. When it's linked to cancer, it's...

Node positive cancer means that cancer cells have spread from the original tumour into one or more...

A PET scan can miss cancer. Not often, but it happens. The test works by detecting cells that...

Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes severe loss of muscle and fat, even when the patient is...

Yes, some viruses cause cancer. They account for about 15 to 20 percent of all cancers worldwide....

A cyst is a fluid filled sac that's almost always benign and rarely turns cancerous. Cancer, on...

The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland in the neck, yet it controls metabolism, energy,...

A tumour board is a weekly meeting. Surgical, medical and radiation oncologists, pathologists and...

Some cancers grow inside organs that simply have no way to raise an alarm. The pancreas, ovaries,...

Mother to baby cancer transmission during pregnancy is extremely rare, with only around 18...

Hugging during chemotherapy is safe most of the time, and emotionally it matters a lot. What...

Cancer drives weight loss through several things happening together. The tumour leaks inflammatory...

PIPAC stands for Pressurised Intraperitoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy, a newer minimally invasive...

Chemotherapy uses drugs that attack all fast dividing cells in the body, including cancer cells...

The first oncology visit should answer five things, what exactly is the cancer and its stage, what...

Hair loss depends entirely on which cancer treatment you're receiving. Surgery alone, hormone...

A neck lump that hasn't resolved after a full course of antibiotics is no longer behaving like a...

Back pain is rarely caused by pancreatic cancer. The vast majority of cases come from muscle...

A persistent cough is rarely caused by lung cancer. The vast majority of cases come from post...

Shortness of breath is rarely caused by lung cancer. The vast majority of cases come from asthma,...

Breast pain is far more often caused by hormonal changes than by cancer. The vast majority of...

Breast pain is rarely caused by cancer. Only around 2 percent of breast pain cases are linked to...

A lump in the armpit is rarely breast cancer. Most cases come from a swollen lymph node fighting...

Persistent bloating lasting a month is rarely caused by cancer. The vast majority of cases come...

It's a small surgery that finds and removes just one or two lymph nodes, the very first ones a...

Blood in mucus is rarely caused by cancer. The vast majority of cases come from a chest infection,...