What Doctors Don't Tell YouHODGKIN'S DISEASE: Treating one cancer might just start another
It is difficult to believe that I was diagnosed with advanced invasive breast cancer - and given a poor prognosis - back in April 2000. Eight months later, having followed a different treatment path, I went into remission and have never looked back...
Oncologists often have only one strategy when dealing with breast cancer: stop the flow of oestrogen to the tumour. Although only half of all breast cancers depend on oestrogen, it’s become a one-size-fits-all approach.
* Diet as good as drugs for reducing cholesterol
The Food and Drug Administration, the American drugs regulator, has admitted that plant sterols in oils, viscous fibres (oats and barley) and almonds can all reduce cholesterol.
ARTHRITIS? So let’s try this cancer therapy on you . . .
In the early part of this century, a group of doctors gathered round a patient with cancer, regarding him as something akin to a circus freak. "Take a good look," remarked a senior member," for th ...
Most breast cancer surgeons engage in surgical overkill, and many safety questions surround the new wonder drugs. ... ...
Chemotherapy results in substantial remission for only 3 per cent of cancers - mainly blood-based ones like Hodgkin’s disease, leukaemia and Burkitt’s lymphoma. Also successfully treated are testicular and ovarian cancers.
CANCER SURVIVAL: Is this a breakthrough supplement?
Those who take the first steps down the rocky road of medical care sometimes find it can be a journey without end. One example is the cancer patient who undergoes the horrors of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Hundreds of thousands of women who have...
