What Doctors Don't Tell YouEvery 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 ...
Chemotherapy for cancer in childhood can affect the fertility of men and women or even cause birth defects. ...
If you have cancer and opt to follow conventional treatments, there are many alternative therapies which can alleviate the worst effects of chemotherapy or radiotherapy and also help your body to ...
Readers’ letters
Two attacks on the safety and efficacy of cancer come from Denmark and Germany. ...
