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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...

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...

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...

Will there be a robot in your operating room?
While this may seem like silly question, an ever-increasing number of surgeries are being performed with the assistance of a robot. Sound like science...

Surgery Recovery Period
The period after your surgery, called the recovery period, is a very important part of your overall surgical experience. The ease with which you...

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 Prostate Cancer - Prostate Brachytherapy
The prostate is gland about the size and shape of a walnut that serves a number of urinary and reproductive functions in men. Unfortunately the prostate...

Cancer Diagnosis - Stereotactic Biopsy
Not all tumors are cancer, but all abnormal tissue growths are at least unsettling. Many tumors are discovered on a routine X-ray or perhaps palpated...

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...

Information on Anoscopy
It is occasionally necessary for a physician to examine the anus and rectum to a greater degree than a digital rectal examination can provide but without...

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...