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Types of Treatments for Pancreatic Cancer and Surgery Insurance
Pancreatic cancer is dubbed as the “silent killer” because of its stealthy, symptom-free segue into a truly severe condition. Depending...

How to Find and Choose a Surgeon for Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
As one of the most alarming cancer diagnoses to receive, the words “pancreatic cancer” can immediately set any patient scrambling for care. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Whipple Procedure
The Whipple procedure is one of the most involved surgical procedures within general surgery—it more or less defines major surgery. This procedure...

Biopsy Types and Information
A biopsy is a procedure in which a small amount of tissue is removed from the body for further analysis. A biopsy may be its own procedure or be included...