Leukaemia (sometimes spelt as leukemia) is a cancer of the blood cells. If you have leukaemia, your body makes some abnormal blood cells. These leukaemia cells behave differently from healthy blood cells. Symptoms can depend on how quickly a leukaemia develops.

The most common symptom of lymphoma is a painless swelling or lump in the neck, armpit or groin. This is caused by lymphoma cells building up in the lymph nodes, which makes them bigger. There are different causes of swollen lymph nodes.

Your cancer team will talk to you about the treatment you need and the possible side effects before you agree to have treatment.How often you have immunotherapy, how it is given and how long your course of treatment lasts depends on:

Seizures can happen with tumours that starts in the brain (primary brain tumour) or when a cancer spreads to the brain (secondary brain cancer).There are different types of seizures. With some seizures, you may go blank and stop responding to people around you for seconds or minutes.

Abemaciclib (Verzenios®) belongs to a group of targeted therapy drugs called cancer growth inhibitors.. It is best to read our information about abemaciclib with our general information about the type of cancer you have.. Your cancer doctor will talk to you about this treatment and its possible side effects before you agree to have treatment.

The TNM staging system is used to describe many cancer types. TNM stands for tumour, node and metastases. T describes the size of the tumour. Sometimes it also describes the exact area of the body affected by the tumour.

You may feel lots of different emotions, including: worry; anxiety; panic; anger; resentment; sadness; depression. It is natural to have any of these feelings in the last few weeks of your life.

A PET scan uses a low dose of radiation to check the activity of cells in different parts of the body. It can give more detailed information about cancer or abnormal areas seen on x-rays, CT scans or MRI scans.It may help doctors find out:

Barrett’s oesophagus has no symptoms. But most people with Barrett’s oesophagus have symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). The most common symptoms of GORD are heartburn and indigestion.

The place where a cancer starts in the body is called a primary cancer. Sometimes, cancer cells spread to other parts of the body through the bloodstream or the lymphatic system.. Secondary cancer in the lymph nodes happens when cancer cells spread to the lymph nodes from cancer that started somewhere else in the body.