Kidney Cancer Without Removing the Whole Kidney?
Yes, for a large share of early kidney cancers. Partial nephrectomy, removing only the tumour and a margin of healthy tissue around it, is now the preferred approach for small, localised kidney tumours under major urology guidelines, including those from the AUA and...
Immunotherapy vs Targeted Therapy:Which Is Better?
Neither is better as a general rule. That’s the honest starting point. These two treatments work completely differently, are used for different tumour profiles, and in some cases are used together rather than as alternatives. Targeted therapy goes after a...
Neck Dissection: When Is It Done With Oral Cancer?
With most oral cancers, the surgeon doesn’t just remove the tumour in the mouth and stop there. The neck gets operated on in the same sitting even when scans show no obvious spread, even when the nodes feel normal, even when the patient has no symptoms in the...
Whipple vs Distal Pancreatectomy:What’s the Difference?
The pancreas sits tucked behind the stomach, divided loosely into three sections: head, body, and tail. Which section the tumour is in decides everything about the operation. A tumour in the head of the pancreas means a Whipple procedure removal of the head along with...