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Only 5% to 10% of cancers come from inherited gene mutations passed parent to child. The rest develop from mutations picked up through lifestyle,...

Untreated cancer grows, invades surrounding tissue, spreads to lymph nodes, and eventually reaches distant organs through the bloodstream or...

A properly performed needle biopsy has no clinically significant evidence of causing cancer to spread. The risk of needle tract seeding exists but...

Some tumours block chemotherapy before it can act. They pump the drug out, repair the DNA damage it causes, or simply lack the receptor it needs to...

Cancer treatment decisions rest on four factors: cancer type, stage, tumour biology from biopsy, and patient fitness. No two patients with the same...

Colon cancer in adults under 50 is rising 3% per year and 1 in 5 colorectal diagnoses now falls in someone under 55. Young patients get caught at...

Surgical spread of cancer, called iatrogenic dissemination, is rare when surgery is performed by an experienced oncological surgeon following proper...

Stage 3 cancer means the tumour has grown beyond its origin and reached nearby lymph nodes or surrounding tissue, but hasn't spread to distant...

Chemotherapy causes fatigue through multiple simultaneous pathways including bone marrow suppression that drops red blood cell production causing...