The main treatments for tonsil cancer are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. You might have a combination of these or one treatment on its own. The tonsils are part of the oropharynx. Treatment ...
Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most common type of ovarian cancer. About 90 out of 100 tumours of the ovary (90%) are epithelial. Epithelial ovarian cancer starts in the surface layer covering the ...
Gerson therapy involves a specific organic vegetarian diet with nutritional supplements and enemas. There is no scientific evidence to use it as a treatment for cancer. A German doctor called Max ...
Radiotherapy for advanced melanoma aims to relieve symptoms and improve a person’s quality of life. Where the cancer has spread to is called a metastasis or secondary cancer. If there are a small ...
The stage of a cancer tells you how big it is and if it has spread. The tests and scans you have to diagnose your cancer will give some information about the stage. But your doctor might not be able ...
The treatment you have depends on what type of neuroendocrine cancer you have. And it depends on where it is, its size and whether it has spread (the stage). These cancers grow at different rates. For ...
Large bowel and rectal neuroendocrine cancers are also called colorectal neuroendocrine cancers. They are cancers that start in the neuroendocrine cells of the large bowel (colon) or back passage ...
Lung neuroendocrine cancers develop in the neuroendocrine cells of the lung. You might also hear them called lung neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs). This means the same as neuroendocrine cancer. There ...
A limb amputation means removing part of the body completely. It might be the only way to cure primary bone cancer for some people. This page is about cancer that starts in your bone (primary bone ...
Most people who have cancer cells in their bones don't have primary bone cancer. They have cancer cells that have spread into the bone from a cancer elsewhere in the body. This is called secondary or ...
Primary bone cancer is very rare. It is much more likely that some other problem is causing your symptoms. But it's important to get any symptoms checked out by your GP. Cancer can also spread to your ...
If you have secondary bone cancer, this is not the right section for you. You need to look at the section for your type of primary cancer which is named after the part of your body where your cancer ...