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X-rays and other radiographic tests help doctors look for cancer in different parts of the body including bones, and organs like the stomach and kidneys.

Learn the basics about getting chemotherapy and important safety precautions you need to consider to protect your health and those you live with.

If you can’t have major surgery because your lung function is reduced or you have other serious medical problems, or if the cancer has spread too far to be removed, other treatments may be used to relieve some symptoms.

Palliative therapy is used to treat symptoms caused by advanced bile duct cancer. Learn more here.

Before chemotherapy is given, surgery to place a central venous catheter (CVC) or venous access device (VAD) may be done. Learn more here.

Palliative therapy is treatment that is given to help control or reduce symptoms caused by advanced gallbladder cancer. Learn more here.

People usually volunteer to donate stem cells for an allogeneic transplant either because they have a loved one or friend who needs a match or because they want to help people.

When a colorectal cancer has spread to other sites, the metastases can be removed by surgery and by other techniques, as well.