How Leukemia and Lymphoma Treatment Paths Differ, and Where They Overlap
Leukemia and lymphoma are both cancers of white blood cells, but leukemia begins in the bone marrow and travels in the blood, so it…
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Cancer Care
Articles for patients and families facing cancer: how screening and diagnosis work, what staging means, how the main treatment types differ and how to prepare for appointments. General information; treatment decisions belong to your oncology team.
Bone Marrow Transplant Recovery Milestones: Discharge, Day 100 and the First Year
Bone marrow transplant recovery unfolds in stages rather than a single date. Blood counts usually recover within a few weeks of the infusion, most…
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Preparing for Stomach Cancer Treatment: Nutrition Assessment and Pre-Surgery Checks
Before stomach cancer surgery, care teams typically assess nutrition by tracking recent weight loss, appetite and how much a person can actually eat, alongside…
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Lumpectomy or Mastectomy for Breast Cancer: What the Surgical Team Weighs With You
For most early-stage breast cancers, lumpectomy followed by radiation and mastectomy offer similar long-term survival, so the choice usually turns on tumor size relative…
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How Graft-Versus-Host Disease Is Treated: Immunosuppressive Therapy Step by Step
Graft-versus-host disease is treated by calming the donor immune cells that are attacking the recipient's body. Prevention starts with immunosuppressive medicines around transplant. If…
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Who Is a Candidate for Robotic Partial Nephrectomy? Tumor Size, Location and Kidney Health
A robotic partial nephrectomy candidate is usually someone with a single, small kidney tumor, most often 4 cm or under and sometimes up to…
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What Happens After a Surgical Oncology Operation? Walking, Wound Care and Pathology Results
After cancer surgery, the first hours focus on waking safely, controlling pain and getting you upright to walk, usually the same day or the…
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Does Chemotherapy Come Before or After Surgery? What Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Mean
Chemotherapy can come either before or after cancer surgery, and the timing is a deliberate choice by the treating team. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is given…
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Recovering From Endometrial Cancer Surgery: Activity, Wound Care and Follow-Up Timing
Endometrial cancer surgery recovery time is usually measured in weeks, not days. Most people leave the hospital within one to five days, feel steadier…
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Parotidectomy Surgery Step by Step: How Surgeons Protect the Facial Nerve
During a parotidectomy, surgeons protect the facial nerve by locating its main trunk with fixed anatomical landmarks near the ear, then tracing each branch…
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How Lymphoma Treatment Is Planned: Hodgkin Versus Non-Hodgkin and What Subtype Changes
Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma are treated differently because they are different diseases under a microscope. Hodgkin lymphoma is usually planned around a small number…
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What Robotic Surgery Changes for Kidney Cancer Patients: Incisions, Precision, Recovery
Robotic kidney cancer surgery is keyhole surgery in which the surgeon removes part or all of a kidney using instruments controlled from a console…
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When Is Mohs Surgery Chosen Over Standard Excision for Basal Cell Carcinoma?
Mohs surgery is usually chosen over standard excision for basal cell carcinoma when the tumor sits where skin is scarce or cosmetically and functionally…
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Building Strength Before Esophageal Cancer Treatment: Nutrition and Swallowing Checks
Nutrition before esophageal cancer surgery means keeping weight, muscle and swallowing as stable as possible in the weeks before an esophagectomy. Care teams usually…
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When Radiation Therapy Is Used Before Surgery, After Surgery or on Its Own
Radiation therapy is used before surgery to shrink a tumor so it can be removed more safely, after surgery to destroy microscopic cancer cells…
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Targeted Therapy vs Chemotherapy: Why One Aims at a Mutation and the Other at Dividing Cells
Targeted therapy vs chemotherapy comes down to what each drug aims at. Chemotherapy damages cells that are dividing quickly, which includes cancer cells but…
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Fever During Leukemia Treatment: Why It Is Treated as Urgent and What Your Team Does
A fever during leukemia treatment is treated as urgent because chemotherapy and the disease itself lower neutrophils, the white blood cells that fight bacteria,…
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How Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Is Planned: Resectable, Borderline and Advanced Disease
Pancreatic cancer treatment by stage is decided less by the stage number than by whether a surgeon can remove the tumor completely. Resectable tumors…
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