What Doctors Don't Tell YouShould women who have a familial history or genetic risk of breast cancer have a mastectomy just in case? No, according to a recent review. ...
That's the new proposal of surgeon Bernard Palmer, who advocates "prophylactic" mastectomies (ie, mastectomies on healthy breasts) for women with a family history of breast cancer. ...
And speaking of breast cancer, if you have to have a mastectomy, make sure it's at a specific time of the month. ...
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 ...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
This woman had a mastectomy last December and is still experiencing considerable post-surgical pain. The area and intensity of pain changes from day to day. Her oncologist is familiar with this reaction, but has no suggestions for treatment. She’s...
Doctors are working on a contraceptive pill that they say will also prevent breast cancer. ...
The largest trial in the US on breast cancer which began the shift away from mastectomy as the preferred treatment was falsified (BMJ, 26 March 1994). About 100 ineligible patients were included i ...
Cases of medical fraud in the US continue to come to light. Following on from the discovery that falsified data found its way into a major cancer study, two medical centres are under investigation ...
