Lumpectomy or Mastectomy? How to Decide What’s Right for You
For early-stage breast cancer, survival after lumpectomy with radiation matches mastectomy. Here is how recovery, monitoring, and eligibility differ.
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Cancer treatment options, explained
Treatment decisions get made quickly, often in a thirty-minute appointment, and usually before you have had time to read anything. These pages cover how the options are weighed, what each one involves, and what to ask while the plan is still being decided.
Understanding Cancer Treatments: Immunotherapy vs Chemotherapy
How chemotherapy and immunotherapy work, why their side effects differ so much, who each suits, and why many plans now include both.
5 Questions Every Cancer Patient Should Ask Their Oncologist
Essential questions to ask your oncologist about diagnosis, treatment options, side effects, and prognosis. Get the information you need to make decisions.
Other sections
- Cancer 101What the words on your diagnosis mean, how cancer is staged, and how clinical trials work. Written to be read on a hard day.
- DiagnosisPathology reports, staging, scans and molecular testing, explained in plain words. What the numbers describe, and what they do not.
- Living with treatmentSide effects, what is normal, what to report to your care team, and how to keep some of your life while you are in treatment.