Adrenal tumors are in most cases found incidentally on a CT scan or because of producing an elevated amount of hormones causing symptoms and can be easily removed in the hands of a skilled...

Breast lesions are in most cases benign (cysts, fibroadenoma) and removal can take concerns of a palpable lesion away. But in some cases a breast lesion can contain cancer. With proper imaging and...

Colorectal cancer usually derives from bowel polyps that over a period of a decade can change into a colorectal cancer. In the early stage of polyps they can be removed by a simple colonoscopy and...

Gastric cancer is unfortunately frequently diagnosed in an advanced stage as symptoms are initially vague and become only more clear at a later stage of the disease. This is why it is important to...

Liver tumors can either originate from the liver itself (hepatocellular carcinoma or HCC) or more frequently be a metastases origination from a cancer elsewhere in the body. Other types of liver...

Pancreatic cancers usually start to give symptoms in a later stage of the disease which is why the prognosis in many cases is not favourable. However, if the tumor is only located in the pancreas...

Sarcoma is a name for a large group of soft tissue tumors under the skin or in the muscle or sometimes in the abdomen (and of tumors in the bone). . Causes . A large (growing) benign swelling (like...

There a in general 3 types of skin cancer if which Basal cell cancer is the most frequent (80% of all skin cancers), Squamous cell carcinoma (16% of all skin cancers), and Melanoma (in only 4% of...

Small bowel tumors are rare (only 3% of all intestinal cancers) and include carcinoid tumors (neuro-endocrine tumors), adenocarcinomas, sarcomas and lymphomas. The treatment and prognosis depends...

Thyroid lesions happen frequently and in some cases can turn into thyroid cancer. Papillary thyroid cancer is the most frequent form followed by papillary thyroid cancer. Both have a usually very...