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Serious Medicine. Extraordinary Care.

Specific Cancers

Adrenal Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Anal Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Bile Duct Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Bladder Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Bone Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Brain and Central Nervous Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Breast Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
  - Genetics and Breast Cancer
  - Male Breast Cancer
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Carcinoma of Unknown Primary
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Cervical Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Colorectal Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Endometrial Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Esophageal Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Ewing Sarcoma
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Eye Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Overview
- Treatment
Gallbladder Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Head and Neck Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Hodgkin Disease
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Kaposi's Sarcoma
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Kidney Cancer
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Laryngeal Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Leukemia - Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Leukemia - Acute Myelocytic (AML)
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
  - Chemotherapy
  - Other Treatments
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Leukemia - Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Leukemia - Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
  - Chemotherapy
  - Other Treatments
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Leukemia - General
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
  - Other Treatments
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Liver Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Lung Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Malignant Mesothelioma
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Multiple Myeloma
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Oral Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Other Cancers
Ovarian Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Genetics of Ovarian Cancer
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Pancreatic Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Penile Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Pituitary Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Prostate Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Skin Cancer - Melanoma
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Skin Cancer - Non-Melanoma
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Soft Tissue Sarcoma
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Stomach Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Testicular Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Thymus Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Thyroid Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Urethral Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Uterine Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Vaginal Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Other Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Treatment Decisions
- Understanding Your Diagnosis
Vulvar Cancer
- Advanced Reading
- Cancer FAQs
- Deciding on Treatment
- Managing Side Effects
  - Chemotherapy Side Effects
  - Radiation Treatment Side Effects
- Overview
- Prevention and Screening
- Understanding Your Diagnosis

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Understanding Your Diagnosis

Bone Scan
A bone scan is used to examine the various bones of the skeleton to identify areas of physical and chemical changes in bone.
Computed Tomography (CT or CAT) Scan
Detailed information on computed tomography scans, also called CT scan or CAT scan, including information on how the procedure is performed
How Does My Doctor Know I Have Head and Neck Cancer?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissues
Magnetic resonance imaging uses a combination of a large magnet, radiofrequencies, and a computer to produce detailed images of structures within the body.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
PET is a type of nuclear medicine procedure that measures metabolic activity of the cells of body tissues. Used mostly in patients with brain or heart conditions and cancer, PET helps to visualize the biochemical changes taking place in the body.
Understanding Your Stage of Head and Neck Cancer
X-rays of the Spine, Neck, or Back
This procedure may be used to diagnose back or neck pain, fractures or broken bones, arthritis, degeneration of the disks, tumors, or other problems.