Thyroid cancer surgery involves removing part or all of the thyroid gland to treat cancerous growths. It is the primary treatment for most thyroid cancers. Thyroid cancer develops when cells in the ...

Prostatectomy and radiation therapy show no survival difference for low-risk prostate cancer, but higher-risk cases require careful treatment consideration. The ProtecT trial supports active ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. To Rebecca Stone, the single most ...

A cross-sectional study found that frailty — but not chronological age — was associated with higher risk for local and systemic postoperative complications in older women undergoing surgery for ...

GLP-1 agonist users had a 17% lower cancer risk compared to non-users in a large retrospective study. The reductions achieved statistical significance for endometrial and ovarian cancers and ...

The second annual report from the National Cancer Database (NCDB) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) documents a ...

What Are the Different Types of Oral Cancer Surgery? Oral cancer surgery refers to a group of procedures with different jobs: removing cancer, rebuilding areas affected by treatment, or restoring key ...

A 67-year-old Ethiopian woman underwent successful surgery in India to remove a rare 12 kg cancerous gastrointestinal stromal tumour, after months of severe pain and organ compression.

When the results of her routine mammogram came back with a diagnosis of stage 0 DCIS breast cancer in multiple areas of her right breast, Athaliah McPherson, a hairstylist and mom of one, said she ...