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At each follow up your doctor or nurse checks how you are coping with any ongoing treatment for example, hormone therapy. Your healthcare team can give you information and support to help you cope.

The stage of a cancer means how big the cancer is and whether it has spread. Knowing the stage helps your doctor decide which treatment you need. Most people with mesothelioma are diagnosed at an ...

What is the stage of a cancer? The stage of a cancer tells you how big it is and whether it has spread. It helps your doctor decide which treatment you need. Stage 3 cervical cancer means the cancer ...

The stages of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) tell you about the number and places in the body that are affected by lymphoma. Knowing the stage helps your doctor to decide what treatment you need. Your ...

You might have a stem cell transplant if your Hodgkin lymphoma has come back after treatment. This is sometimes called relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma. A stem cell transplant allows you to have high doses ...

Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that starts in the food pipe. The food pipe is also called the oesophagus or gullet. Cancer is when abnormal cells start to divide and grow in an uncontrolled way. The ...

Why have I got hiccups? We all have hiccups from time to time. We don’t know the exact cause of hiccups but possible causes include eating and drinking too quickly, over eating, and alcohol. People ...

A voice prosthesis is a common way to restore speech after surgery. After surgery to remove the whole of your voice box (total laryngectomy), you are no longer able to speak in the normal way. But ...

The skin is made up of 2 main layers, the epidermis and the dermis. The thickness of the epidermis and the dermis varies depending on the part of the body the skin is covering. For example, the skin ...

Survival depends on different factors. So no one can tell you exactly how long you will live. Doctors usually work out the outlook for a certain disease by looking at large groups of people. Because ...

The stage of melanoma skin cancer tells you how thick it is and how far it has spread. Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The ...