Skin cancer
The causes and symptoms of skin cancer, plus common treatments. Each year about 60,000 new cases of all types of skin cancer are diagnosed in the UK and more than 1,500 people die from malignant melanoma alone. Most types are fully curable - and ... [... more]
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Stomach cancer
As with colorectal (bowel) cancer, the embarrassment of talking about the symptoms of stomach cancer often puts people off seeking medical help. But late diagnosis leads to a low survival rate, so the sooner it gets treated the better. The ... [... more]
BBC |
Mediastinoscopy
Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer in the UK, killing 92 people a day on average. Find out the most common symptoms and treatments, and how to change your life to help ensure you don't become another statistic. Lung cancer isn't ... [... more]
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Colorectal (bowel) cancer
The symptoms and treatments of colorectal - or bowel - cancer. It may not make the headlines as much as breast or lung cancer, but colorectal is the third most common type of cancer in the UK. With early diagnosis it's also one of the most treatable. [... more]
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Margie Levine
When cancer specialists at Boston's internationally renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute diagnosed Margie Levine with a deadly asbestos-related lung cancer, they predicted that she had only six months to live. Refusing to give up hope, she chose ... [... more]
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Lung cancer
Naloxone is a type of medicine called an opioid antagonist. It blocks the actions of opioid medicines such as morphine, diamorphine, codeine, pethidine, dextropropoxyphene and methadone. Opioids are similar to morphine in structure and are ... [... more]
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Lung cancer
The cells of all living organisms normally divide and grow in a controlled manner. Cancer results when this control process is lost. A lump or tumour, known as the primary tumour can grow locally or spread to produce secondary tumours somewhere ... [... more]
Net Doctor |
Lomustine
Lomustine is one of a group of anti-cancer medicines known as 'nitrosoureas'. Lomustine is used in the treatment of a wide range of cancers including cancer of the lymph nodes (lymphoma), brain cancer, lung cancer and skin cancer (melanoma). It ... [... more]
Net Doctor |
Cancer of the lung
Lung cancers are cancers of the lining cells of the air tubes (bronchi). The medical term for lung cancer is bronchial carcinoma. Lung cancer is the most common cancer in men and the third most common cancer in women, after cancer of the breast ... [... more]
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