What Doctors Don't Tell YouBreast cancer patients have nothing to gain from taking tamoxifen for longer than five years, according to a new study. ...
A study by the Thames Cancer Registry highlights the confusion among doctors over the best way of treating breast cancer. ...
AN ALTERNATIVE TO HRT: Take a walk
High dose chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplant is not an effective way to improve breast cancer survival rates, according to the preliminary results of four ongoing clinical trials. ...
Then there was the woman who'd read good things about apricot kernels as a therapy for breast cancer.
Does a delay in the treatment of breast cancer affect survival rates? And if so, is it the woman's delay in reporting, or the practitioner's delay in treating, that's the most important factor? ...
Mammograms are no longer recommended in New Zealand for women under the age of 50. ...
And speaking of breast cancer, if you have to have a mastectomy, make sure it's at a specific time of the month. ...
BACK PAIN Let your physio do the talking
It’s now proven that whatever good a physiotherapist can do will be done in the very first visit - and that's likely to be the simple advice to stay active.
In the clamour to get the new breast-cancer wonder drug Herceptin available on the UK’s National Health Service, everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that it is very dangerous. It causes life-threatening heart damage in 5 per cent of patients, and...
