923 plain-language articles across 60 topics — symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing — written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Patient Guides.
Colon cancer treatment depends mainly on stage. Early tumors are usually removed with surgery alone, sometimes during colonoscopy. Cancer that has reached nearby lymph…
Multiple myeloma is staged with the Revised International Staging System (R-ISS), which sorts the disease into stages I, II and III using blood tests…
Multiple myeloma is generally considered treatable but not curable. Most people respond to treatment and enter remission, sometimes with no detectable disease for years,…
Stage 4 glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumor in adults. Doctors actually classify it by grade (WHO grade 4), not stage, because…
Glioblastoma is a fast-growing grade 4 brain tumor; doctors grade it rather than stage it, because it almost never spreads outside the brain and…
A benign brain tumor is a growth of abnormal cells in or around the brain that is not cancerous: it does not spread to…
Multiple myeloma remains incurable for most people, but it is now a long-term condition for many. US registry data put five-year relative survival at…
You cannot know for certain whether you have a brain tumor from symptoms alone; only brain imaging, usually MRI, and often a tissue biopsy…
Brain tumor headaches are uncommon, and headache alone is rarely the only sign of a tumor. When a tumor does cause headache, the pain…
MRI is the most reliable imaging test for finding and characterizing a brain tumor. A contrast-enhanced scan shows the size, location, edges and blood…
About 60 percent of people diagnosed with multiple myeloma in the United States are alive five years later, according to NIH SEER data, up…
Chemotherapy for stage 4 lung cancer is a whole-body treatment intended to slow the cancer, shrink tumors and ease symptoms rather than remove the…
Glioma is the umbrella term for tumors that arise from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord, ranging from slow-growing grade 1 to…
In most cases, no single cause of glioblastoma can be identified. The tumor arises when glial cells in the brain acquire genetic changes that…
Multiple myeloma rarely kills directly. Death comes from its complications: infections that an immune system crowded out by cancerous plasma cells cannot fight, kidney…
There is no single best treatment for early-stage prostate cancer. Guidelines support three evidence-based paths: active surveillance with regular monitoring, surgical removal of the…
Glioblastoma survival rate statistics describe groups, not individuals. Across large cohorts, median survival after diagnosis is roughly 12 to 18 months, about a quarter…
About 32 percent of people diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in the United States are alive five years later, according to national cancer registry…
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