External tumor remover

My name's Dr Paul Rogers. I'm a clinical oncologist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. I've been here now for seven years. I began training in 1984 at St...

Brachytherapy is a method of delivering a high dose of radiation to a small area. And to do that, we, in the case of breast cancer, after the surgeon has removed the tumor there is a small cavity left...

I am a surgeon at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center specializing in breast cancer surgery. There have been numerous studies over the last fifteen years showing no difference in survival between women...

After taking care of the external causes of cancer, cleansing the intestines, and alkalinizing, it is time to attack the cancer itself. Cancer patients increase their chances of survival by using as...

The first time a mother sees her child walk, that child is usually about a year old. But now, new technology is allowing one mother to see her teenage daughter take her first step after a near fatal...

There is a lot of controversy about who needs to get radiation after a mastectomy, particularly if they have one to three lymph nodes positive. Here is what I like to tell my patients. There is an...

With prostate cancer, there are two forms of radiotherapy we can give - either, what we call external beam radiotherapy, where we shine the radiotherapy from outside into the body from different...

TomoTherapy is a form of image-guided Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy that integrates a CT Scan in the treatment to better target tumors and reduce radiation to healthy tissue. The scan allows...

To gain access to the abdominal cavity, small incisions are created on the abdomen. Trocars, which serve as passageways for the surgical instruments, are placed into the incisions. The surgical...