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One of the questions most frequently asked by patients diagnosed with prostate cancer is: “Has the disease spread to another part of the body?” Answering this question forms the basis of both treatment planning and the monitoring process. In situations where conventional imaging methods cannot always give a sufficient answer to this question, different approaches […]

Targeted treatments are frequently referred to in everyday language as “smart chemotherapy”. This expression is used to describe the methods that, unlike the “the drug distributes to a wider area in the body” approach in conventional chemotherapy, aim for the drug to show a more selective effect according to the biological characteristics of the tumour. […]

The expression “atom treatment” is most frequently used among the public to describe radioactive iodine treatment (mostly I-131). This method, applied in the field of nuclear medicine, can come into consideration more in certain clinical situations in thyroid diseases. However, since the expression “atom treatment” can sometimes also be used for other treatments carried out […]

When we say “genetic test”, we are not talking about a single analysis. In oncology, a genetic test sometimes comes into consideration to evaluate a person’s hereditary risk, and sometimes to understand the genetic characteristics of the tumour and help plan the treatment options. As the personalised approach has been talked about more in recent […]

Although “cancer” is talked about as if it were a single disease, it is an umbrella concept covering numerous different diseases that share a common biological logic. Frequently heard cancer types such as breast, lung, colon, prostate or thyroid meet in the idea of “uncontrolled multiplication”. Despite this, they can differ markedly in terms of […]

Cancer is one of the health topics that directly touches both a person’s physical and emotional world, and for this reason also spreads the fastest on digital platforms. Information about cancer that goes into circulation on internet sites, social media posts and messaging groups often reaches large audiences in a very short time. However, this […]

One of the concepts most frequently encountered after a cancer diagnosis is “stage”. Staging is a medical classification system used to describe the distribution of the disease within the body, in which regions it remains limited or to which areas it shows spread. This classification offers a common assessment framework that enables physicians to speak […]

One of the concepts encountered more frequently in oncology in recent years is the term “smart drug” (targeted therapy). Unlike conventional treatment approaches, this term is used to describe groups of drugs evaluated based on specific cellular targets. Smart drugs are considered within the framework of molecules that target certain proteins, enzymes, or cellular signaling […]

Chemotherapy is one of the medication-based approaches used in oncology. However, chemotherapy is not a uniform process planned and implemented in the same way for every individual. In medical evaluations, not only the diagnosis but also many variables—such as overall health status, age, coexisting conditions, laboratory findings, and pathology reports—are considered together. For this reason, […]