Pacific College of Oriental MedicineMillions of patients undergo chemotherapy as part of their cancer treatment. Although this may control some types of cancers and possibly prolong the lives of some patients, chemotherapy has many negative side effects. For those who still believe...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouCombined drug treatment for ovarian cancer is not more effective than single drug treatment, a new study reveals. ...
Only a quarter of patients actually feel better after having palliative chemotherapy, a small study reveals. The study looked at the overall sense of well being of women with breast cancer before ...
There is no evidence to support the use of high dose chemotherapy over standard regimens in breast cancer treatment, say researchers in the Netherlands. ...
Every so often something reminds me that medicine, as it is now practised, engages in what the late medical critic Dr Robert Mendelsohn once referred to as "holy war on the family". ...
NON-HODGKIN: Doing nothing is as good as chemotherapy
SLE is difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to treat. Many of the treatments currently administered to sufferers of SLE are nothing more than a shot in the dark. Since SLE can manifest i ...
Q My hearing has been deteriorating for a long time and, two years ago, it came to a head after a long airplane flight. Since then, I have had a varied selection of antibiotic drops for my ears. But now, after two years, it has been diagnosed as an...
Several cases of children born from assisted conception developing tumours have come to light. ... ...
Up to 50 per cent of cancer patients will be treated with radiotherapy. It may be used exclusively, or as a back up to chemotherapy or surgery. Like chemotherapy, it comes with its own range of si ...
