The Cancer Insights Panel played an important role in shaping Cancer Clinic: Live, ensuring the programme was sensitive, realistic and genuinely reflective of patient experiences. Their questions and ...

What is a risk factor? Anything that increases the risk of getting a disease is called a risk factor. Different cancers have different risk factors.­ Having one or more of these risk factors doesn’t ...

radiotherapy to particular parts of the body, including the abdomen surgery to particular parts of the body, such as removal of the testicles or some types of prostate surgery Before you start cancer ...

Your doctor can give you more information about your own outlook (prognosis). You can also talk about this with the Cancer Research UK information nurses on freephone 0808 800 4040, from 9am to 5pm, ...

Cryotherapy uses extreme cold to destroy cancer cells. It's also called cryosurgery or cryoablation. During cryotherapy treatment the doctor freezes the cancer cells to kill them. For cancers on the ...

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You might have tests to stage your cancer. This depends on your type of skin cancer. Most basal cell cancers (BCC) don't need staging because it's very rare for them to spread. You only need staging ...

Staging is a way of describing the size of a cancer and how far it has grown. When doctors first diagnose a cancer, they carry out tests to: check how big the cancer is whether it has spread into ...

If you notice a change in your skin and you’re worried, you shouldn’t delay contacting your GP. Your worry is unlikely to go away if you don’t make an appointment. The symptom might not be due to ...

Researchers are looking at better ways to understand the causes and how to prevent breast cancer. Find out about the latest UK research. Researchers are looking at better ways to treat early breast ...

Remember, these symptoms can be caused by other conditions and do not necessarily mean that you have cancer. But it is important to get them checked out. The thyroid gland is at the base of your neck.

Around the year 2000 a group of popcorn factory workers in the USA developed the condition, leading to the name ‘popcorn lung’. Diacetyl was a flavouring in the popcorn and so the workers breathed it ...