Ablation therapy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that kills cancer cells with either very hot or very cold temperatures.
It is used to treat both primary tumors in their original locations and cancers that have spread — or metastasized — to other organs.
To learn more about the risks and benefits of ablation therapy, as well as how it works and which patients might be eligible to receive it, we spoke...
Getting a full-body scan to check yourself out for possible cancers might sound like a great idea. But what are the risks and benefits? And...
It may seem strange to feel lucky while going through cancer treatment, but that’s exactly how I feel. My lung cancer experience...
I am probably the luckiest unlucky person you will ever meet. I was diagnosed with four different types of cancer between 2016 and 2020. And yet today, I am cancer-free.
My first diagnosis was throat cancer. My last one was lung cancer. In between those, I also had breast cancer and skin cancer.
I had no symptoms for any of them. Each one was found only by chance. But I went to MD Anderson for all of my cancer...
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One of the first physicians you may speak with after a cancer diagnosis is a medical oncologist.
These doctors specialize in...
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Arlene Holden’s family knows all too well that cancer touches everyone. Over the past two decades, Arlene’s daughters, Gayle Kuoni and Lerryn...
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been an amazing advance for treating blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple...
You may already know that MRIs and CT scans are two of the imaging methods doctors use to diagnose and stage cancer.
But do you...