What treatment here actually involves
Not what it is in principle — what happens in the room, in what order, and how long it takes. One page for each operation and each test, written to be read the night before you come in.
Diagnostics and staging
The tests that name the disease precisely, because treatment cannot be planned without that.
Rebuilding after head and neck surgery
When removing a cancer from the mouth or the neck leaves a gap, tissue from your own body is moved to fill it, in the same operation.
Thyroid surgery, and protecting the voice
Removing half the thyroid gland or all of it, with the nerves that carry your voice found and protected while it is done.
Voice after larynx surgery
What removing the voice box changes, how breathing works afterwards, and the ways of speaking again.
Breast surgery that keeps the breast
The tumour is taken out with a rim of normal tissue around it and the rest of the breast stays — the right operation for some tumours and not for others.
Keyhole surgery for lung cancer
The same lung operation done through a few small cuts between the ribs, with a camera, where the tumour and your lungs suit it.
Keyhole surgery for cancers in the abdomen
An operation done through several small cuts and a camera, where the tumour and your own history suit that way in.
Surgery, then heated chemotherapy in the abdomen
A long operation for cancer that has spread across the lining of the abdomen, offered to a selected group of people after the tumour board has looked at the case.