About Operations: How to Prepare for and Recover From An Operation

You'll find everything you need to feel confident and prepared for your upcoming operation right here. Our expert guidance covers all types of surgery from day procedures to major operations, helping you understand what to expect and how to have the smoothest possible recovery. About Operations is here to help.

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Organ Donation: Facts and Figures

Transplant surgery has become much more common in the last 30 years, which has created the universal problem of a shortage of donated organs. Sourcing Donate...

The Role of a Nurse

A nurse has many responsibilities in the rehabilitation of a person who has needed hospital treatment. In fact, this article can only really skim the surface...

Bone Marrow Transplantation

A bone marrow transplant is often used to cure several different types of diseases including certain cancers. It can be particularly effective in cancer trea...

What Does Chemotherapy Involve?

Chemotherapy is one of the methods which involve the combination of drugs to treat cancer. It can be administered in different ways depending on how advanced...

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Surgery for Gallstones

It is not unusual to have gallstones; around 15 in every 100 people in the UK has stones within their gallbladder. Not everyone knows about them, however, as...

Lymph Node Removal and What it Reveals

If you have been having symptoms, or have a cancer screen or medical examination that reveals a lump that could be a tumour, this is a very worrying time. Fu...

New Breast Construction Techniques

Having breast cancer treatment today usually means that you can expect a very good outcome as treatments have improved dramatically over the last 20 years. A...

Trigeminal Neuralgia Surgery

Trigeminal neuralgia is an extremely painful illness caused when the trigeminal nerve that leads from the spine in the neck to areas of the head and face bec...

Acoustic Neuroma Surgery

Acoustic neuroma surgery is the main treatment used for this type of ear tumour. Acoustic neuromas are not usually malignant, aggressive cancers; they are a...

Hospital Parking Charges

Hospital parking charges have always been unpopular, but as promises made to scrap hospital parking charges made during the run up to the 2010 election have...

Who Needs Mole Removal?

Mole removal is necessary if a mole becomes cancerous. This can happen to any mole on the skin and is classed as a type of cancer known as malignant melanoma...

What Is Carpal Tunnel Surgery?

Carpal tunnel surgery is an operation that becomes necessary if the transverse carpal ligament in the hand starts to press on the median nerve, the main nerv...

What Is Stereotactic Radiosurgery?

Radiotherapy has been used to treat different cancers for decades, and is often used to try to shrink tumours that are too difficult to operate on. Early for...

Adenoids: Why Are They Removed?

Fifty years ago it was quite common for a child to have his or her tonsils and also adenoids removed. Both are glands in the throat and are easily accessible...

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