Category:
cancer
Delay in diagnosis and treatment allowed neuroblastoma to spread
Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis and treatment top the list of closed claims
Catching it quickly and getting prompt treatment are critically important
Surgical resection of a tumor is a precise process that needs confirmation by a pathologist
Cutting too much or too little around the melanoma tumor causes problems, new guidelines should help surgeons get it just right
Colorectal cancer is the most treatable type of cancer...if you get screened
Learn the signs and symptoms of stomach/gastric cancer that everyone should know
40,000–80,000 patients die each year in American hospitals because of misdiagnosis
When possible, surgeons needs to remove enough tissue to make sure that they get the surrounding microscopic cancer, too, as well as the larger tumor
For average-risk patients, the guidelines no longer recommend an annual colonoscopy beginning at age 50