Gerson therapy involves a specific organic vegetarian diet with nutritional supplements and enemas. There is no scientific evidence to use it as a treatment for cancer. A German doctor called Max ...

Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most common type of ovarian cancer. About 90 out of 100 tumours of the ovary (90%) are epithelial. Epithelial ovarian cancer starts in the surface layer covering the ...

The treatment you have depends on what type of neuroendocrine cancer you have. And it depends on where it is, its size and whether it has spread (the stage). These cancers grow at different rates. For ...

Large bowel and rectal neuroendocrine cancers are also called colorectal neuroendocrine cancers. They are cancers that start in the neuroendocrine cells of the large bowel (colon) or back passage ...

Radiotherapy for advanced melanoma aims to relieve symptoms and improve a person’s quality of life. Where the cancer has spread to is called a metastasis or secondary cancer. If there are a small ...

Researchers around the world are trying to improve the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer. Go to Cancer Research UK’s clinical trials database if you are looking for a trial for ovarian cancer ...

A team of healthcare professionals decide what your treatment options are. Surgery is often the main treatment. Other treatments include: somatostatin analogues radiotherapy chemotherapy targeted ...

A limb amputation means removing part of the body completely. It might be the only way to cure primary bone cancer for some people. This page is about cancer that starts in your bone (primary bone ...

Doctors use targeted cancer drugs or immunotherapy to treat melanoma that has spread elsewhere in the body such as the liver, lungs or bone (advanced cancer). Or to treat stage 3 melanoma that cannot ...

Your pre assessment appointment prepares you for your operation. You meet members of your treatment team at this appointment. The doctor will tell you what to do on the day of your operation. This ...

TNM stands for Tumour, Node, and Metastasis. It's one of the staging systems for bone cancer. Doctors may also use the number staging system. The stage of a cancer tells the doctor about its size and ...

Neuroendocrine cancers are a group of cancers that start in the neuroendocrine system. Doctors might also call them neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs). But the terms mean the same thing. There are 2 key ...