cancer treatment

Preparing for radiation therapy can be nerve-wracking. To help ease your mind, here’s what you should know about radiation therapy as well as some tips to prepare. 

It is estimated that approximately 50-percent of all cancer patients can benefit from radiation therapy, which makes understanding it, breaking down the various symptoms, and knowing what to expect, an important part of living through treatment. Here’s everything you should know about radiation therapy.

Mouth cancer will affect about 53,000 people in the United States this year. If cancer progresses and spreads to other parts of the body, the survival rate drops to 38-percent. This is why recognizing the warning signs is so important.

Dry mouth (also medically known as xerostomia) may not be a particularly painful health matter, but for those who deal with the condition it is both irritating and concerning. We look into the common causes of chronic dry mouth or xerostomia.

To get better informed on the topic of immunotherapy, let’s take a deeper look into each of the different types.

Let’s take a moment to look at the benefits and risks of immunotherapy, a relatively new cancer treatment that is considered to be a great breakthrough.