Canada Health Podcast - Episode-2: Cancer Diagnosis
Channel: Canada Health Podcast
Date: 2017-09-03

Transcript of Episode-2: Cancer Diagnosis By: Dr. Ehab Mohammed

Cancer Diagnosis
Hi everyone, today I will talk about cancer diagnosis. To definitely diagnose cancer, your doctor needs a tissue biopsy which means taking part of the tumor for examination under the microscope. Sometimes tissue samples or biopsies are taken under Xray guidance especially if the tumor is located inside the body such as in lung or liver. So the question now arises, what is the importance of having cancer diagnosis? The answer to that question is that we need cancer diagnosis for many reasons such as confirmation of having cancer or not , locating the tumor itself, identifying the grade and markers of the tumor. The grade of cancer is essential as it determines the degree of aggressiveness of cancer and this has an implications on treatment as well as the prognosis of cancer. In a recent clinical research published on the journal Pathological Oncology Research in 2017, 121 patients with breast cancer were included in this study and it was found that tumour grade was one of the most important indicators for tumour aggressiveness and progression later after treatment. If you have any questions about cancer diagnosis you can check my website in the contact link.