Meanwhile the cancer grows and it is time for serious surgery.

Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years.

By the time symptoms appear, the cancer may have grown and spread.

His cancer was growing - it could only end in one way.

Depending on how much the cancer has grown, you may have one or more treatments.

These cancers grow quickly and spread early in the course of the disease.

And others can delay dealing with any side effects until tests show their cancer is growing more quickly.

The treatment depends a lot on how much the cancer has grown.

The cancer they find may be growing so slowly that it would never threaten a woman's life.

I tell most of my patients they shouldn't wait longer than a few months to start treatment, though, because cancers do grow in that time.