Life After Cancer: Oral Health Problems
Cancer treatment often causes mouth problems or affects your oral health. It can cause problems, such as sores, pain, infection, saliva changes, and dry mouth.
Cancer treatment often causes mouth problems or affects your oral health. It can cause problems, such as sores, pain, infection, saliva changes, and dry mouth.
Pain is a common side effect of cancer and cancer treatment. But sometimes people have pain even after cancer is gone and treatment is over. This can cause problems with daily life and make it harder to function or enjoy things.
Lymphedema is swelling in part of the body that may occur after cancer surgery or radiation. It's an ongoing (chronic) condition that has no cure. But you can do things to help reduce your risk for lymphedema.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the U.S. (not counting skin cancer). It's mostly found in older men. And in most cases, it's found before it has spread to other parts of the body.
Cancer rehabilitation is a program that supports you when you’re dealing with cancer. It’s a program for during and after cancer treatment.
After a diagnosis of prostate cancer, you will likely have other tests. These tests help your healthcare providers learn more about your cancer and decide how best to treat it. Here's what you need to know.
Once your healthcare provider knows you have cancer, the next step is to find out the grade and stage of the cancer.
A risk factor is anything that may increase your chance of having a disease. Here's what you need to know about the risk factors for prostate cancer.
Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment. It uses medicines made to focus on parts of cancer cells that make them different from normal, healthy cells. these medicines attack cancer cells but cause less damage to normal cells.
Immunotherapy is a treatment that use medicines to kill cancer cells or slow their growth. It’s not the same as chemotherapy (chemo).