Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Diagnosis
Physical exam: The doctor will check your joints for swelling, tenderness, and range of motion. RA tends to strike several joints. Antibody blood t...
Mehr lesenPhysical exam: The doctor will check your joints for swelling, tenderness, and range of motion. RA tends to strike several joints. Antibody blood t...
Mehr lesenRheumatic diseases affect your joints tendons, ligaments, bones, and muscles. Depending on what parts of the body it affects, OA can make it hard t...
Mehr lesenIf your doctor sees signs that your tumor has grown, they will talk to you about whether it’s time to stop active surveillance and start treatment....
Mehr lesenRadioactive seed implants are a form of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Another option is for the ultrasound and treatment plan to be done a...
Mehr lesenThere are no warning signs of early prostate cancer. The main signs of erectile dysfunction is not being able to achieve an erection, or to have it...
Mehr lesenIf your doctor thinks you might have prostate cancer based on either a PSA level or a rectal exam, a biopsy is the next step. If your PSA level is ...
Mehr lesenRadical prostatectomy can cure prostate cancer in men whose cancer is limited to the prostate. A man undergoing radical prostatectomy by a surgeon ...
Mehr lesenThe radiation therapist will take a port film, also known as an X-ray, on the first day of treatment and about every week thereafter. However, port...
Mehr lesenSometimes, a mix of both treatments works best. This treatment keeps the cancer cells from getting them. Hormone treatment is often used if cancer ...
Mehr lesenChemotherapy is given to cause the cancer to shrink and, hopefully, to disappear. Because chemotherapy acts to kill rapidly-dividing cancer cells, ...
Mehr lesenCryotherapy uses extremely cold temperatures to freeze and destroy cancer tissue in the prostate. Some experts think cryotherapy is an option for t...
Mehr lesenMost doctors try to delay starting people on levodopa as long as possible because the drug tends to stop working as well after a while. Safinamide ...
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