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Cancer Care Information for Patients & Caregivers in Singapore

Explore articles on cancer care, including diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care in Singapore. These resources provide general information to help patients and caregivers better understand their journey and support discussions with their healthcare team.

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Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer Part 2 – Immunotherapy
As discussed in Part 1, immune surveillance is important in preventing cancer. It was noted more than 100 years ago, that cancers had immune cells around them known as lymphocytes or tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs).
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Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer – Part 1
Many people would be familiar with therapies to treat cancer including chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and even targeted therapy. There has been excitement and news of boosting or harnessing the immune system as treatment in some cancers. Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that increases the strength of the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. There are various ways of doing this with monoclonal antibodies, adoptive cell transfer, cytokines, vaccines and immune checkpoint inhibitors. Most of the recent news refers to immune checkpoint inhibitors such as Ipilumumab, Pembrolizumab, Nivolumab and other drugs.
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Colon Cancer Presenting as Blood in the Stools
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10 Facts About Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
In Singapore, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer for more than 40 years and it is the leading cause of death in cancers affecting women. There are more than 7000 new cases a year (from 2006-2010) and it has been a rising incidence trend. The incidence rises sharply after 30 years old to peak in the 60s. Of the ethnic groups in Singapore, the age-standardised incidence rate is higher for Chinese than for the other ethnic groups.
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Carcinoma, Sarcoma, Myeloma, Lymphoma and Leukemia – What Cancer is That?
At OncoCare Cancer Centre, we sometimes see patients who have received a report and are confused by the cancer names or terminology. Some patients have been informed by their treating doctor or surgeon that they have a lump removed and that it is a tumor (or tumour). They next receive a report that may be difficult to understand. What is the difference between the different terminologies?
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What is a GIST?
Learn about gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs), their causes, symptoms, treatments, and how targeted therapy can help manage this rare cancer.
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