Cancer can also start elsewhere such as the kidneys and spread to the adrenal glands. This is called secondary cancer. It is treated as kidney cancer, not adrenal gland cancer. Secondary cancer in the ...

An estimated 20,000 tonnes of old household batteries end up in landfill every year. Batteries contain toxic chemicals and metals, including lead, mercury, zinc and lithium, that can pollute the ...

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The stage of a cancer tells you how big it is and how far it has spread. It helps your doctor decide the best treatment for you. Doctors use different systems to stage breast cancer in the UK. Staging ...

Screening tests are not perfect and have some harms as well as benefits. In the UK, there is an independent body of experts. They are called the National Screening Committee (UK NSC). The UK NSC makes ...

In the UK, the most common staging system for breast cancer is the TNM system. The TNM staging system stands for Tumour, Node, Metastasis. T describes the size of the tumour (cancer) N describes ...

9,525 new cancer cases per year, 2019, 2021-2022, UK.

Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer. It means that the body makes large numbers of abnormal white blood cells. Blood cancers are also called haematological cancers. The symptoms listed here are often ...

50,218 new cases of lung cancer, 2019, 2021-2022, UK.

A rare cancer is one that affects a small number of people. Doctors might also call a cancer rare if it starts in an unusual place in the body. Or if the cancer is an unusual type of a more common ...

Long term or chronic constipation can lead to faecal impaction. Chronic constipation means difficulty having a poo that can last for several weeks or longer. One main symptom of faecal impaction, is ...