You thought it skipped your line. No history on your side. Then it showed up. Unexpected. A sibling. A cousin. It raised a question you didn’t want. Could it be shared? Genetics doesn’t ask permission. It doesn’t knock. It passes on quietly. Without symptoms. Without signs. Just risk. Sitting in silence. You were told it…
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The door opens slower. The clock ticks louder. You’re not just here for results. You’re here for the next step. But no one says it yet. The room feels too clean. The air too sharp. A nurse smiles—gently. You fill out papers again, even if they already have them. First visits move slow. On purpose.…
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It wasn’t painful. Just new. Maybe it’s from exercise. Or a bruise. You wait. But it stays. Oncologists in Türkiye hear this story often. Small, painless lumps are dismissed. But they matter. Not every cancer starts loud. Some just sit quietly. Watching. Waiting. First signs don’t shout. They repeat. Your blood tests came back strange,…
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A symptom doesn’t arrive with a label. It doesn’t say “cancer” or “ignore me.” It sits quietly. Disguised. Ordinary. Often passing. That’s what makes early detection so difficult. And so essential. The most common cancers don’t always start with a lump or a cough. Sometimes they begin with things we excuse. With fatigue we call…
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Cancer sounds like a single thing. One weight. One name.But the moment you hear it, it begins to split.Suddenly it’s not one word. It’s many.Carcinoma, lymphoma, sarcoma, myeloma.It spreads across syllables like it spreads across tissue.You try to keep up. You can’t. The doctor is speaking. You hear only pieces.You hold on to familiar sounds.…
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It doesn’t begin with understanding.It begins with fear shaped like unfamiliar syllables.Someone says “oncology” softly, almost like it might dissolve in air.You nod, as if it means something.You don’t ask what it is. Not then.You’re afraid the answer will sound worse. The room is white.The faces are kind.But your stomach turns like the ground has…
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Cancer is an important health and life problem with increasing prevalence in the world. It ranks second after cardiovascular diseases among life-threatening diseases. The most common cancers in our country are breast, thyroid, intestinal, uterine and lung cancers in women and lung, prostate, intestinal, bladder and stomach cancers in men. The diagnosis and treatment of…
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Stating that 11.5 million people are expected to lose their lives due to this disease in 2030, General Surgery Specialist Op. Dr. Tom Hadi said that cancer treatment should be a multifaceted treatment in line with the knowledge of all the points and functions affected by the disease in the body and said, “In modern…
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Oncology, which is a very wide-ranging field, is, in the simplest terms, a department that deals with the investigation and elimination of tumors that proliferate out of control in the body. It is a word of Latin origin, with oncos meaning swelling and logos meaning science. Generally, this department deals with the diagnosis and treatment…
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