Dr Dilanka De Silva oncologist Archives - Sloanmaccallum Cancer Care

HIPEC for stage 4 colon cancer: could this major operation actually help me? | Dr Dilanka De Silva

A 42-year-old lawyer. No bowel symptoms. No family history. Yet her first diagnosis was already stage 4 colon cancer. Unfortunately, […]

A diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer is devastating. But not all lung cancers behave in the same way—and today,

A patient once asked me: “If the PET scan is negative, doesn’t that mean it cannot be cancer?” Unfortunately, not

When someone is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, one of the most important questions is not simply: “What type of

“Why do I need an FDG PET scan when someone else with cancer had a PSMA PET?” It is a

“If the cancer started in the kidney, shouldn’t we just remove the kidney?” It sounds logical. But in Stage IV

Many men come to see me after prostate cancer treatment worried about prostate cancer recurrence, often because their PSA has

Many men with a high PSA in Melbourne come to see me worried that the blood test has already diagnosed

Many of my patients have asked for simpler explanations of prostate cancer studies and, more importantly, how those studies actually

Many of my patients have asked for simpler explanations of brain tumours and why the pathology report can contain so