Not all cancers are the same. Some cancers grow quickly but many grow very slowly. When you are diagnosed with some types of cancer, you might not need treatment straight away. Doctors monitor you ...

Secondary liver cancer is when a cancer that started somewhere else in the body has spread to the liver. It is also called liver metastases. Secondary lung cancer is when a cancer that started ...

What is inflammatory breast cancer? In inflammatory breast cancer, the cancer cells often block the small lymph vessels in the breast. The lymph vessels (or lymph ducts) are part of the lymphatic ...

The stage tells you how big your cancer is and whether it has spread. The grade means how abnormal the cells look under a microscope. The stage of a cancer tells you how big it is and how far it has ...

Cancer that starts in the eye is called primary eye cancer. This section is about primary eye cancer. Sometimes cancer can spread to the eye from another part of the body. This is called secondary eye ...

radiotherapy to particular parts of the body, including the abdomen surgery to particular parts of the body, such as removal of the testicles or some types of prostate surgery Before you start cancer ...

To find out the Grade Group, a pathologist looks at several samples of cells from your prostate. These are called biopsies. The pathologist grades each sample of prostate cancer cells based on how ...

How do doctors group prostate cancer? In the UK, doctors now use the Cambridge Prognostic Group (CPG) for prostate cancer that hasn't spread. This divides prostate cancer into 5 prognostic groups. The ...

This page is about treatment options for people who have prostate cancer that hasn’t spread to other parts of the body. This is also called non metastatic prostate cancer. Prostate cancer that has ...

Different factors affect your outlook (prognosis). The statistics on this page do not take all of these into account or tell you about your own case. You can talk to your doctor who knows about your ...

How does prostate cancer cause symptoms? Most prostate cancers start to grow in the outer part of the prostate gland. This means that in the early stages, they don’t press on the urethra. So they ...

The grade of a cancer tells you how much the cancer cells look like normal cells. This gives your doctor an idea of how your cancer might behave and what treatment you need. Adenocarcinomas start in ...