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How to Find and Choose an Oncologist - Cancer Surgery Specialist
‘Surgical oncologist’ is a somewhat slippery term. To begin with, operations to treat cancer are not only limited to surgical oncologists...

Training, Location, Expertise - Finding an Oncologist
Once you discover that you have been diagnosed with cancer, seeking rapid and definitive treatment is critical to surviving and ultimately beating the...

Preoperative Preparation
There will be many healthcare professionals working to make sure you have an excellent outcome from your surgery. Besides the surgeons, there are...

What Could Be Happening During Your Surgery
As surgical techniques advance in sophistication, there are a number of intraoperative procedures that could be taking place during your surgery....

What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...

The Pathology Report
While you will meet your surgeon and anesthesiologist before your surgery, there is one medical professional that will participate in your surgery...

What is a Pathologist?
As a field, surgery owes much of its progress to the field of anesthesiology. If patients could not be safely placed unconscious, surgeons would...

A Primer on Robotic Surgery
When people first hear the term robotic surgery it is hard not to imagine a robot plucked straight from a science fiction movie standing over a patient...

Caring for Patients with Cancer: Oncology Nursing
Oncology is the branch of medicine that studies, diagnoses and treats cancer. Oncology nursing is a discipline within the field of nursing that specializes...

Treating Cancer - Radiation Oncology
Modern medicine provides several ways of treating cancer such as surgery, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy. One of the main ways to treat cancer is...

Genetic Testing
In 2003, scientists mapped the entire human genome, that is, identified the ~25,000 genes in our DNA that make people, people. This information has been...