Learn more about cancer surgery for both diagnosis (biopsy) and tumour removal; including 12 questions to ask your surgeon, along with non-surgical alternatives increasingly be ...

All men know that prostate cancer surgery can lead to impotence and incontinence and have heard HIFU greatly reduces these problems; men in the UK want to know where to get the best treatment - he ...

60 per cent of cancer patients have some sort of surgery; sometimes for diagnosis, such as a biopsy, sometimes for treatment; Here we talk about five important things to think about befo ...

Here we cover ten tips to prepare yourself for cancer surgery, looking at what you might do before to strengthen your body, and what you might do afterwards to reduce swelling, combat pa ...

Can Surgery, and even biopsy, spread cancer? This article looks at the question, ’Can Surgery spread cancer?’ The answer is clearly, ’Yes’. But there are suggestions ...

A ’breakthrough’ in prostate cancer - six years late! Almost six years after CANCERactive told you the benefits of HiFU  High Intensity Focussed Ultrasound - as an alterna ...

Pre-menopausal women must have breast cancer surgery in the last two weeks of their cycle Dr Paul Layman wrote to us to clear up an error in the Tony Howell interview. Paul writes, "An eig ...

M D Anderson Cancer Centre researchers have suggested that near-infrared optical imagery, based on night goggle technology, can help show up tumour margins more easily and thus help surgeons becom ...

An Italian study has suggested that surgery may increase the risk of cancer recurring. The researchers studied 1173 women who underwent mastectomy, but no other treatment, at the Milan Cancer Inst ...

Originally published in September-October 2004 icon An effective treatment for lymphoedema, a frequent and distressing side-effect of some cancer surgery   By Marie-France Bewl ...