Then there was the reader who was looking for non-surgical treatments for her friend who has a large polyp growing on the side of her face. The friend had one removed surgically when she was 12. One reader doesn't feel there is a great deal to worry...
Mrs L.K., a 43-year-old homemaker from Bury in Lancashire, came to see me for some tests to detect possible early signs of malignancy in her gut. She was particularly cautious because her father, mother and brother had all died of bowel cancer in...