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Each cancer location has specific revealing symptoms.
Independently of the location however, most revealing factors can be deduced from physiopathology and the particular development characteristics of the tumour.
Once these symptoms have appeared, phsyicians should request a few diagnostic procedures in order to:
- make diagnosis as soon as possible, with the least disturbing and painful procedures for the patient,
- quickly obtain tumour biopsy offering precise histological knowledge,
- request the necessary clinical and paraclinical check-ups looking for local and remote cancer evolution ,
- precisely define the cancer stage,
- initiate the treatment schedule, decided according to previously defined therapeutic protocols adjusted through a multidisciplinary study of the patient's medical record.
Rigorously defined diagnostic check-up should offer patients optimal efficiency in order to make the quickest and most appropriate therapeutic decision. Delay in diagnosis induces treatment delay and, consequently, a major decline in patient chances and results.
Appropriate and rapidly initiated treatment offers the best prospects to patients.
Physiopathology of revealing symptoms
With specific chapters about mammography, scanner and RMI
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