radiation therapy

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.

Cancer can start in the liver when cells in the body begin to grow out of control. If the cancer spreads to surrounding organs, tissue, or lymph nodes the survival rate is only 11-percent. This is why early detection is so important!

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.

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that invades the bone marrow and alters the blood plasma cells. Plasma cells live in the bone marrow and are responsible for making other healthy cells. To learn more about this condition, here’s an overlook at the symptoms, causes, risk factors and treatment of multiple myeloma.

We look into all the possible side effects of immunotherapy.