Cáncer de paratiroides - Factores de riesgo
EN ESTA PÁGINA: encontrará más información sobre los factores que aumentan la probabilidad de desarrollar cáncer de paratiroides. Use el menú para ver otras páginas.
Cancer genetics
Cáncer de tiroides - Últimas investigaciones
EN ESTA PÁGINA: leerá acerca de la investigación científica que se está realizando para aprender más sobre el cáncer de tiroides y cómo tratarlo. Use el menú para ver otras páginas.
How to Cope with Cancer Through Volunteering
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In this Voices on Cancer post, patient advocate and breast cancer survivor Terri Wingham talks about giving back to the community after cancer.
Breast Cancer - Metastatic - Diagnosis
ON THIS PAGE: You will find a list of common tests, procedures, and scans that doctors use to find out the cause of a medical problem. Use the menu to see other pages.
When Cancer Leads to Workplace Discrimination
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People with cancer may face many challenges at work during and after a cancer diagnosis and treatment, including subtle or direct discrimination. Learn how to prevent, identify, and handle possible discrimination at work.
What I Want My Patients to Know Before They Leave My Office
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Hearing the doctor say “cancer” can change everything. Prateek Mendiratta, MD, discusses the 8 questions he wants his patients to ask before they leave the oncologist’s office.
Allison W. Kurian, MD, MSc, FASCO
Cancer.Net Specialty Editor: Breast Cancer
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Spotlight On: Pathologists
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Pathologists play an essential role in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. In this interview, Carey August, MD, and Chanjuan Shi, MD, PhD, discuss what they do on a daily basis to help care for people with cancer.
What is Targeted Therapy?
Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment. It uses drugs to target specific genes and proteins that help cancer cells survive and grow. Targeted therapy can affect the tissue environment that cancer cells grow in or it can target cells related to cancer growth, like blood vessel cells.
Retinoblastoma - Childhood - Risk Factors
ON THIS PAGE: You will find out more about the factors that increase the chance of developing retinoblastoma. Use the menu to see other pages.
What are the risk factors for retinoblastoma?
A risk factor is anything that increases a person’s chance of developing cancer. Although risk factors often influence the development of cancer, most do not directly cause cancer. Some people with several risk factors never develop cancer, while others with no known risk factors do.
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