For someone undergoing treatment for cancer, or who has finished treatment but still takes extra precautions to stay safe, the question looms large: How do I handle the holidays?
Once you’re infected, it usually takes between five days and two weeks before symptoms appear. This stage is called "pre-symptomatic." When people are pre-symptomatic, the amount of virus they shed from the nose and mouth is extremely high, putting others around them in danger.
After meeting with that doctor for what he thought might be an ulcer, Mark was diagnosed with duodenal cancer, a rare type of cancer of the small intestine or bowel.
In general, coughing is your body’s way of responding to irritation and is usually considered normal and healthy. But sometimes a persistent cough is a warning sign of something more complex, including lung cancer.
“Cancer patients have to be warriors all the time, but I don’t consider myself one. I had a lot of help from everyone at Roswell — the positivity from everyone at the front desk, the nurses and everyone I met."
In the cancer world, neuroendocrine tumors are the zebras. Represented by this analogy because of their rarity, neuroendocrine tumors make up just 2% of nationally treated cancers.
A recent article published by the National Cancer Institute reported that at least 50% of older adults had received at least one unnecessary cancer screening. Here's what you need to know.