What Doctors Don't Tell YouIt's been a great time for oily fish recently provided you're not one yourself, of course. The fish may provide protection against asthma, especially among children, and they could be good for dia ...
That's the new proposal of surgeon Bernard Palmer, who advocates "prophylactic" mastectomies (ie, mastectomies on healthy breasts) for women with a family history of breast cancer. ...
My sister has been treated for over five years at hospital for breast cancer. However, early last year, I asked if a doctor from our surgery would call as she felt unwell when she woke up (although she did improve during the day).
A major HRT trial in the US has been halted because the combination of conjugated equine oestrogen (0.625 mg/ day) and medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg/day) (Prempro) simply did more harm than good.
There is no evidence to support the use of high dose chemotherapy over standard regimens in breast cancer treatment, say researchers in the Netherlands. ...
A second major cancer study in the US has been discredited after data had been falsified. The news follows the revelation just a month earlier that the biggest survey on breast cancer in North Ame ...
An early report of a recent trial has shown that high dose chemotherapy does not improve survival in women with metastatic breast cancer (Lancet, 2000; 355: 905). ...
American drug regulators look like opening the floodgates on the use of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen. It is about to be licensed in the US as a preventative and there's a good chance the UK m ...
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