Six Resolutions for a Healthier New Year
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Looking to improve your health and reduce your cancer risk in 2014? Here are six ideas to get you started.
Colon cancer
Understanding the Publication and Format of Cancer Research Studies
Research studies answer key questions about how cancer works in the body. They also show what tests and treatments may work best. To help improve cancer care, scientists share the results of their studies with other scientists and doctors. The main way they do so is by publishing them in medical journals.
Sarcoma de tejido blando - Diagnóstico
EN ESTA PÁGINA: encontrará una lista de las pruebas, los procedimientos y las exploraciones frecuentes que los médicos usan para averiguar la causa de un problema médico. Use el menú para ver otras páginas.
Topic #1: Cancer-Directed Treatments at the End of Life
Background
Cancer care is made up of treatment(s) to slow, stop, or eliminate the cancer combined with treatments to relieve the related symptoms and side effects, called palliative or supportive care. However, for some people, there is a point when the available treatments cannot control the growth and spread of the cancer. This may be called advanced or terminal cancer. Then, the main focus of treatment is on managing the symptoms of the cancer.
Sarcomas, Soft Tissue - Diagnosis
ON THIS PAGE: You will find a list of common tests, procedures, and scans that doctors use to find the cause of a medical problem. Use the menu to see other pages.
Doctors use many tests to find, or diagnose, cancer. They also do tests to learn if cancer has spread to another part of the body from where it started. If cancer has spread, it is called metastasis. Doctors may also do tests to learn which treatments may work best.
Appendix Cancer - Introduction
ON THIS PAGE: You will find some basic information about appendix cancer and the parts of the body it may affect. This is the first page of Cancer.Net’s Guide to Appendix Cancer. Use the menu to see other pages. Think of that menu as a roadmap to this entire guide.
Liver Cancer - Introduction
ON THIS PAGE: You will find some basic information about liver cancer and the parts of the body it may affect. This is the first page of Cancer.Net’s Guide to Liver Cancer. Use the menu to see other pages. Think of that menu as a roadmap for this entire guide.
About the liver
Small Bowel Cancer - Introduction
ON THIS PAGE: You will find some basic information about this disease and the parts of the body it may affect. This is the first page of Cancer.Net’s Guide to Small Bowel Cancer, also called small intestine cancer. Use the menu to see other pages. Think of that menu as a roadmap for this entire guide.
Colorectal Cancer - Stages
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about how doctors describe a cancer’s growth or spread. This is called the stage. Use the menu to see other pages.
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Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Gastrointestinal Tract - Diagnosis
ON THIS PAGE: You will find a list of common tests, procedures, and scans that doctors use to find the cause of the medical problem. Use the menu to see other pages.
Doctors use many tests to find, or diagnose, a neuroendocrine tumor of the gastrointestinal tract (GI tract NET). They also do tests to learn if cancer has spread to another part of the body from where it started. If the cancer has spread, it is called metastasis. Doctors may also do tests to learn which treatments could work best.
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