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… Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer On this page: Health Tools Symptoms … Support What is kidney cancer? Kidney cancer is the out-of-control growth of abnormal cells in one …
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… Lung Surgery for Lung Cancer On this page: Surgery Overview What To Expect Why It … Surgery Overview The goal of surgery for lung cancer is to remove all of the cancer and a border of normal tissue (margin) around it. The …
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… Excision of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer On this page: Surgery Overview What To Expect How … Surgery Overview Excision of non-melanoma skin cancer is a treatment to remove, or excise, basal cell and squamous cell cancers (carcinomas) from your skin. Skin cancer is the …
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… Cancer Support: Managing Stress On this page: Overview … There's a lot you can do to lower your stress when you have cancer. The key is to find one or two ways of coping with … to talk to someone who isn't directly affected by your cancer. A cancer support group helps you connect with other …
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… Cancer: Home Treatment for Pain On this page: Overview … Information Overview Home treatment may help to reduce cancer pain and improve your physical and mental well-being. … cold treatments can help with mild to moderate pain from cancer. Talk to your doctor before trying either heat or …
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… Mohs Surgery for Skin Cancer On this page: Surgery Overview What To Expect Why It … Surgery Overview Mohs surgery removes a skin cancer one layer at a time. The doctor checks each layer for cancer cells until no more cancer is found. This method lets …
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… Bowel Resection for Colorectal Cancer On this page: Surgery Overview How It Is Done What To … tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection for colorectal cancer , also called partial colectomy, removes the tumour. … is to take out the part of the colon or rectum where the cancer is. Nearby lymph nodes are taken out and tested for …
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… Hormone Treatment for Breast Cancer On this page: Overview Overview Some breast cancers need the hormones estrogen or progesterone to grow. These cancer cells have "receptors" on their surface that let …
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… Laser Surgery for Skin Cancer On this page: Surgery Overview What To Expect Why It … This high-intensity light is used to shrink or destroy skin cancers or precancers (actinic keratosis). With lasers, there is usually …
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… Does Aspirin Prevent Cancer? On this page: Overview Overview … to show that daily aspirin use helps prevent some types of cancer, such as colon cancer. But daily aspirin use increases the risk of bleeding …
