Osteosarcoma in Children: Signs Parents Notice, Diagnosis and Treatment
Osteosarcoma is the most common bone cancer in children and teenagers, usually starting near the knee or shoulder during the adolescent growth spurt. Early…
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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.
Metastatic Osteosarcoma: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Metastatic osteosarcoma is bone cancer that has spread beyond the bone where it began, most often to the lungs and less commonly to other…
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Osteosarcoma Prognosis: What Shapes the Outlook and What the Numbers Really Mean
Osteosarcoma prognosis depends mostly on whether the cancer has spread when it is found, where the tumor sits in the skeleton, how thoroughly it…
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Brain Tumor Early Symptoms: Early Signs, Warning Signs and When to See a Doctor
Early brain tumor symptoms depend on where the tumor sits, but the most commonly reported are new or changing headaches (often worse in the…
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Is Glioblastoma Hereditary? Genetics, Family Risk and What It Means for You
Glioblastoma is rarely hereditary. Most cases arise from genetic changes that occur in brain cells during a person's lifetime and cannot be passed on.…
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Brain Tumor Survival Rate: What the Statistics Mean, Stage by Stage, and What Changes Them
Brain tumor survival rate is a population average, not a personal forecast. Roughly one in three adults diagnosed with a malignant primary brain tumor…
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Brain Tumor Prognosis: What Shapes the Outlook and What the Numbers Really Mean
Brain tumor prognosis depends less on the words "brain tumor" than on the specific diagnosis: the tumor's type and WHO grade, its molecular features,…
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Osteosarcoma Survival Rate: What the Statistics Mean, Stage by Stage, and What Changes Them
Across mainstream cancer registries, roughly 7 in 10 people whose osteosarcoma is confined to the bone where it started are alive five years after…
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Colon Cancer Treatment Options: Surgery, Medicines and Therapies Compared
Colon cancer treatment depends mainly on stage. Early tumors are usually removed with surgery alone, sometimes during colonoscopy. Cancer that has reached nearby lymph…
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Multiple Myeloma Stages: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
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…
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Is Multiple Myeloma Curable? What Remission Means and What Treatment Can Achieve
Multiple myeloma is generally considered treatable but not curable. Most people respond to treatment and enter remission, sometimes with no detectable disease for years,…
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Stage 4 Glioblastoma: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Stage 4 glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumor in adults. Doctors actually classify it by grade (WHO grade 4), not stage, because…
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Glioblastoma Stage 4 What to Expect: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
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…
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Benign Brain Tumor: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
A benign brain tumor is a growth of abnormal cells in or around the brain that is not cancerous: it does not spread to…
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Multiple Myeloma Life Expectancy: What the Research Shows and What Changes It
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…
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How Do You Know If You Have a Brain Tumor: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
You cannot know for certain whether you have a brain tumor from symptoms alone; only brain imaging, usually MRI, and often a tissue biopsy…
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Brain Tumor Headaches: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Brain tumor headaches are uncommon, and headache alone is rarely the only sign of a tumor. When a tumor does cause headache, the pain…
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Brain Tumor Mri: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
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…
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