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4 treatment settings, 2 with more than one named option. Each section lays out the options the standard of care names, what each is for, the trials behind them with their recorded results, the side effects and cautions on record, and questions to ask. Built from the cancer page's standard-of-care rows; nothing here is advice for your case.
Circumcision if the foreskin is involved; topical fluorouracil or imiquimod, laser ablation or glans resurfacing; close follow-up because recurrence is common.
The 1957 chemotherapy that remains the backbone of treatment for bowel, stomach, pancreatic, anal, head and neck and breast cancers, and as a cream for skin precancers.
Destroying precancerous cervical cells with a heated or frozen probe in under a minute, the tool that makes screen-and-treat possible where there are no surgeons.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
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Organ-sparing surgery (wide local excision, glansectomy, partial penectomy) with narrow margins; brachytherapy for small distal tumours; total penectomy only for large or proximal disease.
Brachytherapy places a radioactive source directly inside or next to the tumour.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
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Surveillance for low-risk tumours (Ta, T1 grade 1 without lymphovascular invasion); dynamic sentinel node biopsy for intermediate- and high-risk tumours, with inguinal lymphadenectomy if positive.
Removing just the first lymph node a tumour drains to, instead of all of them, to check for spread.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
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HPV vaccination (now offered to boys in many countries and being tested in Chinese men) and treatment of phimosis and lichen sclerosus.
Vaccines that prevent the viral infections behind cervical, throat, anal, and liver cancers. The most effective anti-cancer intervention ever created.
A vaccine against nine HPV types that prevents about 90% of cervical cancers, and now works with a single dose.
No headline result recorded yet.
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