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Nearly 25% of heart valve patients feel depressed after surgery, even when it goes well. This is called cardiac depression. Knowing what you may experience emotionally after surgery can help you prepare for it—and identify it—if depression does happen.

Dehydration happens when your body loses more fluids than it takes in. Understanding why and how chemotherapy can make you dehydrated is key. It’s also important to know how to stay hydrated during treatment.

Depression is common after a spinal cord injury. Be aware of the symptoms, and get help if you are depressed.

Direct rigid laryngoscopy is a procedure to look at the vocal cords. Using a tool called a laryngoscope, your doctor can look behind your tongue and down your throat to your vocal cords. A tissue sample (biopsy) can be taken for study in a lab. Or a growth can be removed.

Laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy are 2 procedures that may be done together. These allow the doctor to see inside the air passages in the throat and lungs. A laryngoscopy looks at the throat and vocal cords. Bronchoscopy looks at the trachea (windpipe) and lungs. These procedures can be used to diagnose and treat certain problems

Make a list of questions and bring them to your appointments. These can cover how to decide on treatment, how to get ready for treatment, and how to cope during treatment.

Being told you have a soft tissue sarcoma can be scary, and you may have many questions. But you have people on your care team to help you.

Chemotherapy (chemo) uses anticancer medicines to kill cancer cells. Learn how chemo is used for stomach cancer.

Read on for helpful questions to ask your doctor about your treatment for prostate cancer.