Chemotherapy can affect fertility in both men and women, but the impact varies enormously by drug,...

Yes, fever during chemo is always treated as a medical emergency, never something to wait out at...

Some complementary therapies can sit safely alongside cancer treatment, but they should never...

Feeling cold during chemo is usually down to anaemia. Chemotherapy lowers your red blood cells,...

If the report comes back worse than expected, it usually means the treatment plan is strengthened,...

Two years is the usual wait after chemotherapy before trying to conceive. That window lets the...

Hair almost always grows back after chemo, though it often returns a little different at first....

Skip raw or undercooked meat, fish and eggs. Skip unpasteurised milk and soft cheeses. Wash every...

Constipation after cancer surgery is very common and usually nothing to be alarmed about....

Numbness near a surgical scar happens because tiny nerves in the skin are unavoidably cut when the...

Most stitches come out around seven to fourteen days after surgery, though the exact day depends...

lifting weights after lymph node removal is generally safe and highly recommended, provided you...

Lymphedema is swelling that develops when lymph fluid can't drain properly, usually after lymph...

Some swelling, or edema, is a natural part of healing as fluid rushes to the surgery site. The...

insurance generally covers robotic surgery, but with significant conditions. Under regulatory...

A normally healing wound has clean, closed edges, mild redness right around it and swelling that...

You will have some degree of scarring, because any incision disrupts the collagen structure of the...

As a general rule, you stop solid food about six to eight hours before surgery, while clear fluids...

For most cancer surgeries, there's no ICU stay at all, or just one to two days when it is needed....

Grade 3 means the cancer cells look very different from normal cells under the microscope and tend...

HER2 positive means the cancer makes too much of a protein called HER2, which pushes it to grow...

Start with a few key parts and the report stops looking like a wall of jargon. The diagnosis line...

Not for everyone, but for certain cancers it genuinely matters. Genetic testing looks for...

Whether chemotherapy comes first (neoadjuvant) or surgery comes first (adjuvant) depends entirely...

Stage 2 cancer is both treatable and, in most cases, curable. The tumour has grown a little or...

In most cases, yes, health insurance does cover robotic surgery. What insurers pay for is the...

you can absolutely work during cancer treatment. Many people continue working full-time or...

Whether you can delay cancer treatment by two weeks depends entirely on your specific diagnosis,...

The first week isn't for treatment. It's for getting your footing. The priorities are clear:...

A suspicious biopsy report sits in the grey zone between clearly benign and confirmed cancer. It...

FNAC is surprisingly accurate for what it is, a thin needle drawing a few cells from a lump. In...

A doctor orders a PET scan after a CT because the two tests answer different questions. A CT shows...

Robotic surgery is becoming the future of cancer treatment because it gives the surgeon precision,...

Open, laparoscopic and robotic are three surgical approaches and none of them is universally...

Choosing the right oncologist in Bangalore means finding a specialist whose training, volume and...

Mobility is generally reassuring but it does not rule out cancer. Most movable lumps under the...

In most cancers, a two-week biopsy delay does not meaningfully change the stage, the treatment...

Cancer fatigue is not tiredness that sleep fixes. It is a persistent, overwhelming exhaustion that...

Intermenstrual bleeding is not automatically cancer. Most cases come down to hormonal imbalance,...

Painlessness does not make a lump safe to ignore and it does not make it cancerous either. Most...

Less painful than most patients expect. Small port incisions of 8 to 12mm replace a large open...

Rectal cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the rectum, and it is one of the most common...

Thyroid cancer is one of the most common cancers of the endocrine system, with increasing...

Lung cancer in non-smokers accounts for roughly 25 percent of all lung cancer cases globally and...

The HPV vaccine prevents infection with the high-risk HPV strains responsible for approximately 70...

Multivisceral resection (MVR) is a complex, en bloc surgical procedure that removes a primary...

A surgical margin is the rim of normal, healthy tissue surrounding a removed tumor, analyzed by a...

Breasts are made up of glandular tissue, fibrous connective tissue and fat. When glandular and...

Ovarian cancer is called silent because it produces no specific early symptoms. Bloating, pelvic...

Most adrenal tumours are benign adenomas that never become cancerous. Malignant transformation...

Kidney cancer under 4cm and selected tumours up to 7cm can be treated with partial nephrectomy,...

In Indians, the first symptoms of liver cancer are upper right abdominal discomfort, unexplained...

Stomach cancer is one of the most commonly missed cancers in India because its early symptoms are...

Lumpectomy in Bangalore costs INR 75,000 to 2,00,000 at private specialist centres. Mastectomy...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the hardest cancers to detect early because the pancreas sits deep in...

Advanced breast cancer surgery in India costs INR 6 to 14 lakhs for Stage 3 disease covering...

Breast cancer surgery in South India is best handled by a surgical oncologist with specialist...

Most comprehensive health insurance policies in India cover cancer surgery including...

Consultation fees for a surgical oncologist in Bangalore run between INR 500 and INR 1,500 at most...

Robotic cancer surgery in India costs between INR 1,50,000 and 8,00,000 depending on cancer type,...