Cancer does funny things to one’s sense of time. In this post, Margaret Zuccotti talks about how her diagnosis, treatment, and long-term survival of metastatic inflammatory breast cancer caused her to look at her calendar differently.
ON THIS PAGE: You will find out more about changes and medical problems that can be a sign of rhabdomyosarcoma. Use the menu to see other pages.
Children with rhabdomyosarcoma may or may not experience one or more of the following signs or symptoms (see the table below). Symptoms are changes that you can feel in your body. Signs are changes in something measured, like taking your blood pressure or doing a lab test. Together, symptoms and signs can help describe a medical problem.
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about how doctors describe a cancer’s growth or spread. This is called the stage. The tumor’s clinical group describes whether it can be removed by surgery. Use the menu to see other pages.
ON THIS PAGE: You will find out more about the changes and medical problems that can be a sign of neuroblastoma. Use the menu to see other pages.
ON THIS PAGE: You will find out more about the factors that increase the chance of developing primary bone sarcoma. Use the menu to see other pages.
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a hereditary condition commonly associated with multiple café-au-lait spots on the skin. Café-au-lait spots are light brown in color, like the color of “coffee with milk.” About 10% to 25% of the general population has café-au-lait spots; NF1 is suspected when a person has 6 or more.
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about how doctors describe a cancer’s growth or spread, as well as what the cancer cells look like under a microscope. This is called the stage and grade. Use the menu to see other pages.
Staging is a way of describing where the cancer is located, if or where it has spread, and whether it is affecting other parts of the body.
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about how doctors describe a cancer’s growth or spread, as well as the way the tumor cells look when viewed under a microscope. This is called the stage and grade. Use the menu to see other pages.
