Oncology 2025, March

The sentinel node is the first lymph node to which the lymph from the neoplastic focus drains. Due to the location, metastases of malignant neoplasms spread ...…

Nodular melanoma is one of the most aggressive types of skin cancer. It accounts for approximately 15-20% of all diagnosed melanoma cases. Nodular melanoma ...…

Locally advanced breast cancer is a breast cancer that reaches a significant size or infiltrates nearby tissues. Locally advanced breast cancer does not create ...…

Mastectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the breast gland. Mastectomy is usually performed due to breast cancer, Wed ...…

Residual disease describes the situation in the body when a trace number of neoplastic cells remain after oncological treatment. They are undetectable by standard ...…

Hoarseness that lasts longer than 2-3 weeks may be a symptom of laryngeal cancer. It is a type of cancer that affects men ten times more than women ...…

Head and neck tumors are a group of neoplasms located in the head and neck area (except the brain). They develop insidiously because the first ...…

Neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract are cancers of the esophagus, stomach, intestines, pancreas and bile ducts. The most common are cancers of the large intestine ...…

Mr. Andrzej is already retired. Together with his wife, Krysia, he is raising a disabled son together. He recently heard the diagnosis: colorectal cancer. Mrs. Krysia, k ...…

HER2 positive breast cancer is a particularly aggressive form of cancer - it grows rapidly and is more likely to metastasize to the lymph nodes. Therefore, the detection of cancer ...…

Lobular carcinoma of the breast is one of the subtypes of breast cancer. It is estimated that lobular carcinoma accounts for about 10-15 percent. malignant breast cancer. Find out what cec ...…

Hormone-dependent neoplasms are those neoplasms whose development depends on the state of the body's endocrine system. Check which cancers belong to the group of hor ...…

Mucinous carcinoma, also known as colloidal carcinoma, is a rare breast cancer, accounting for about 1% of all cancers in this area. It most often affects women in the soles ...…

Medullary thyroid cancer is a rare neoplasm. Medullary thyroid cancer runs in families in some cases. Cancer risk in creat ...…

Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare but very malignant breast cancer. Treatment consists of combining several forms of therapy, but often it is not enough to combat ...…

Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer is most often caused by a mutation in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are among the anti-oncogens whose task ...…

The early symptoms of ovarian cancer are not specific, so diagnosis is usually late in the disease. If the visit to the gastroenterologist shows nothing, ...…

How to prevent cancer? The death toll that tumors collect could be less, if we took care of ourselves, we systematically examined ourselves. With cancer and others ...…

Cancer markers (neoplastic markers) are chemicals of various structures that are produced in the body's tissues. There are many of them in he althy tissues ...…

Lynch syndrome is hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). It is the most common ...…

A defective BRCA1 gene can be a serious threat to he alth and life. BRCA gene mutation increases cancer risk by 30-80 percent in pi ...…

Cancer can start with a single mutinous cell in the body that secretly begins to divide abnormally. Years later, he lets you know about himself ...…

Skin cancer is not only melanoma. Not only can the types and symptoms of skin cancer vary. Find out what types of skin cancer are, how to recognize their symptoms and ...…

A neuroma is a tumor of the peripheral nervous system that attacks the components that make up nerves. Neuroblastoma is a rare neoplasm and in most cases it is benign ...…

Cancer cells arise as a result of a mutation that interferes with their multiplication cycle. Damaged cells undergo uncontrolled division, and the program mechanism ...…

Humans carry 10-20 genes on average, which predispose them to serious diseases. However, that doesn't mean you need to get sick. However, if any of your ...…

Lip cancer is a relatively rare cancer that most often affects elderly men. Lip cancer belongs to head and neck cancers. A typical feature of this group ...…

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are rare and atypical neoplasms that can occur in various organs and tissues, but as many as 70 percent of them are localized ...…

Chorionic carcinoma, or chorionic carcinoma, is a malignant neoplasm that most often develops in women struggling with acinar moles - a form of pregnancy disease ...…

Somatostatin tumor (somatostatinoma) is one of the neuroendocrine neoplasms. Somatostatin tumor is quite a serious disease, as it turns out that at the moment ...…