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Cancer treatment can you feeling very fatigued. Treatment can also make your white blood cell count drop, which puts you at a higher…
Most women and some men with breast cancer have some type of surgery. Common types of breast surgery are lumpectomy, mastectomy, and taking out removal of lymph nodes from the underarm. Women(and…
Breast imaging (taking an image of the breast)
Mammogram
A mammogram is a breast x-ray. A mammographer (an expert in taking breast x-rays) will ask you to undress to the waist and stand in front of…
Managing the late effects of breast cancer treatment
Living the lymphoedema after breast cancer
Menopausal symptoms and breast cancer
Reducing the risk of lymphoedema
Bone health - after breast…
Biopsies
A biopsy is where a small sample of tissue, or amount of cells is taken from your body, to be examined under a microscope. This will help the medical team to determine whether a…
The purpose of this directory is to provide comprehensive information about the local cancer services available to the population of Calderdale & Huddersfield. It has been produced to build on…
The small bowel (or small intestine) is the longest part of the digestive system. It is only about as wide around as a middle finger (approximately 1 inch or 2.5 centimetres) and is, on average,…
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are a rare type of cancer that starts as a growth of cells in the pancreas. Another term for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor is islet cell cancer.
Some…
Neuroendocrine Neoplasm (NENs) an umbrella term, covering cancers which originate from neuroendocrine cells
Two main types of NEN exist:
1. NETs (neuroendocrine…
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