How Immunotherapy Works: Step by Step, in Plain Language
Immunotherapy works by helping your own immune system recognize and attack cancer cells, rather than poisoning the cells directly the way chemotherapy does. Some…
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Acibadem Health Blog
463 plain-language articles across 34 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 Health Library.
How Many Radiation Treatments for Prostate Cancer: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Most external beam radiation for prostate cancer involves 20 to 39 sessions, given five days a week over roughly four to eight weeks, while…
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Immunotherapy Drugs: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Immunotherapy drugs are cancer treatments that help the body's own immune system recognize and attack tumor cells, rather than killing those cells directly the…
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Palliative Chemotherapy: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Palliative chemotherapy is chemotherapy given when cancer cannot be cured, with the aim of shrinking or slowing tumors to ease symptoms, protect quality of…
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How Radiation Therapy Works: Step by Step, in Plain Language
Radiation therapy works by aiming high-energy X-rays, gamma rays or particle beams at a tumor to damage the DNA inside cancer cells so they…
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Chemotherapy Drugs: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Chemotherapy drugs are medicines that kill fast-dividing cells or stop them from copying their DNA, which is why they affect cancer cells and also…
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Adjuvant Chemotherapy: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Adjuvant chemotherapy is chemotherapy given after surgery has removed a cancer, with the aim of destroying microscopic cells that may have escaped and lowering…
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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is chemotherapy given before surgery or radiation rather than after. Its goals are to shrink a tumor so an operation is smaller…
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Immunotherapy vs Chemotherapy: The Difference, When Each Is Used and How to Decide
Chemotherapy uses drugs that kill fast-dividing cells directly, which is why it also affects hair, gut lining and blood counts. Immunotherapy instead helps the…
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How Chemotherapy Works: Step by Step, in Plain Language
Chemotherapy works by damaging cells at the moment they divide. Cancer cells divide more often and repair themselves less reliably than most healthy cells,…
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Immunotherapy Side Effects: What to Expect, How Long They Last and How They Are Managed
Immunotherapy side effects happen because the treatment releases the immune system's natural brakes, so healthy tissue can be attacked alongside cancer. Most effects are…
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What an Oncologist Is: How It Works, Who It Helps and What to Expect
An oncologist is a physician who specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer, then following patients afterward. Most oncologists work in one of three…
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Chemotherapy Side Effects: What to Expect, How Long They Last and How They Are Managed
Chemotherapy side effects depend on the medicines used, the treatment schedule and the person receiving them. The most common are fatigue, nausea, hair loss,…
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Radiation Therapy Side Effects: What to Expect, How Long They Last and How They Are Managed
Radiation therapy side effects come from damage to healthy cells near the treated area, so they depend on where the beam is aimed. Fatigue…
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Private Neurosurgeon: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
A private neurosurgeon is a brain and spine surgeon who either works in an independent practice rather than as a hospital employee, or, in…
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Life Expectancy After Gamma Knife Surgery: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Life expectancy after Gamma Knife surgery is determined almost entirely by the condition being treated, not by the procedure itself. For benign problems such…
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What Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Is: How It Works, Who It Helps and What to Expect
Deep brain stimulation surgery implants thin electrodes into specific movement-control regions of the brain and connects them to a small pulse generator placed under…
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Gamma Knife Surgery Cost: What the Price Covers, What Moves It and the UK, US and Türkiye Ranges
Gamma Knife surgery cost depends mainly on the condition being treated, whether one session or several is planned, the amount of imaging and planning…
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