The internet is an essential tool for anyone in the cancer world. Your oncology team uses it and you should too. This episode offers words of caution for those new to cancer as well as providing major resources everyone should regularly familiarize themselves with.

A few more thoughts on signs and symptoms and the importance of screening and wellness exams

Meet the players that can be involved in the process of decision making and caring for patients with cancer. 

4 steps to a diagnosis, explaining staging and grading cancer to better form a plan of care

Continuing on with the steps to diagnosis, this episode explores lab work from routine blood draws to pathology. 

A person with cancer likely will require some kind of imaging, likely more than one scan. Today we discuss x-rays, mammograms, ultrasounds, CT scans, PET scans, MRIs and bone scans.  

We start with the basics and build up from there. There is a lot of terminology to learn that might help understand what goes into understanding the world of cancer.  

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