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What's the difference? Imaging tests

May 30, 2023

What’s the difference? CT scan, MRI and other imaging tests for cancer

Advances in technology have given doctors a multitude of imaging procedures to help diagnose and stage cancer —and determine which treatments may be most effective.

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Dr. Garg answers your questions about uterine and endometrial cancer.

May 18, 2023

Your uterine and endometrial cancer search questions answered

Dr. Ruchi Garg answers some of your most frequently Googled uterine cancer questions.

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How fast does cancer grow?

March 21, 2023

How quickly does cancer spread?

Because every cancer is different, there’s no universal rate at which all cancers grow. Some cancers tend to remain in place and not grow much at all. Others grow slowly—so slowly that they may never require treatment. Aggressive cancers may grow and spread so quickly that they metastasize before the cancer has been diagnosed.

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When should you worry about stage 0 breast cancer?

March 16, 2023

When to worry about stage 0 breast cancer

Stage 0 breast cancers may often be called pre-cancers or pre-invasive cancers, which are a collection of abnormal cells in the breast that have some characteristics of cancer but haven’t yet spread to other tissues or organs.

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Heart cancers are very rare.

February 14, 2023

Is it possible to get heart cancer?

While virtually every organ in the body is susceptible to cancer, the disease rarely affects the heart directly.

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When to worry about colon polyps?

January 31, 2023

When to worry about colon polyps

It’s important to understand what colon polyps are, what symptoms they cause, how doctors treat them and when you should be concerned about them.

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Cancer survival rates are improving, researchers say.

January 26, 2023

What’s driving the improvement in U.S. cancer survival rates?

The cancer death rate in the U.S. has declined 33 percent since 1991, thanks largely to new treatments, gains in early cancer detection and, most significantly, a sharp decline in tobacco use.

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What's the difference in benign and malignant tumors?

January 12, 2023

What’s the difference? Benign vs. malignant tumors

While it may seem easy to categorize benign tumors as harmless and malignant tumors as harmful, the distinctions are often more of a gray area. Yet the importance of differentiating the two is critical.

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Lung cancer shares many symptoms with other respiratory ailments.

November 3, 2022

Can lung cancer be misdiagnosed?

Lung cancer may often misdiagnosed as other conditions is because it shares many common symptoms with those conditions, including coughing, fatigue and shortness of breath.

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Diagnosing cancer

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