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People with cancer often tap into their spiritual side when battling the illness. This might include prayer, attending religious services, reading passages from a holy book, or simply expressing gratitude and love.

Doctors use tests like mammograms, MRIs, and CT scans to help screen for, diagnose, treat, and keep track of cancer. Read on to learn more about them.

Cancer treatment can cause many changes that may affect your sexuality. It can also change the physical or emotional closeness you share with another person. Different treatments can cause different physical and psychological changes that can affect how you feel, look, and function.

Surgery can sometimes be used to treat esophageal cancer. The type you have depends on where the cancer is, how much it's spread, your overall health, and other factors.

Preterm labor is labor that starts before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. Labor is when the uterus regularly tightens and the cervix starts to thin and open. This lets the baby (fetus) enter the birth canal.

Chemotherapy is the use of medicines to treat cancer. The medicines can cause an inflammation of the lining of the mouth. The mouth is lined with mucous membranes. When these are inflamed, it’s called mouth mucositis.

Measles (rubeola) is a respiratory illness caused by a virus. It causes a red, blotchy rash. It’s a very contagious illness.

When a person is dying of cancer, the goal of care is providing as much comfort as possible.

Detailed anatomical information on the respiratory system in pregnancy.