What Doctors Don't Tell YouDoes 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...
Besides offering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a quick-fix solution for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, mood swings and weight gain, medicine has been using it as preventative medicine against cardiovascular problems such as heart...
Treating women who have had a false positive mammography screening (detecting cancer where there is none) is a third of the cost of providing screening for all women, Swedish researchers have disc ...
New evidence confirms that exposure to organochlorine compounds raises a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. ...
American doctors are, in the main, ignoring copious scientific and governmental recommendations that early breast cancer can be treated with breast conserving surgery and still opting for now outm ...
BREAST EXAMINATION: It doesn’t make any difference
