cancer diagnosis and treatment

9. How does cancer spread? Most cancer cells that enter the bloodstream or lymphatics do not cause metastases. Only rare malignant cells actually survive to cause distant tumor implants by recruitin…

17. What is adjuvant therapy? Adjuvant means "assisting or aiding," but we use this term to mean assisting after surgical or radiotherapeutic control of the primary tumor. Adjuvant chemoth…

1. What is melanoma? The term melanoma implies a malignant tumor; malignant melanoma is redundant. The most malignant of all skin cancers, melanoma usually forms from a preexisting nevus or mole but…