What Doctors Don't Tell YouWhile evidence is thin on the ground for many other alternative therapies, lymphoma has been shown to respond to heat treatment. .. ...
A study of a new kind of whizzy radiation treatment had to be aborted when it was found patients were a third more likely to die with the new therapy than with conventional x-ray treatment. ...
Radical mastectomy where the breast and surrounding muscles are removed is no better at preserving life than less aggressive treatments. ...
Early diagnostic tests for prostate cancer are so unreliable that doctors would do better to assess the risk through family medical history, cancer experts have suggested. ...
Two support groups have been set up by women who claim to have been dreadfully damaged by medical procedures. ...
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. ...
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 ...
A hospital in Copenhagen has stopped using radiation therapy as first choice treatment for a condition caused by overactive thyroid, after it temporarily blinded one woman (Lancet, 1998; 351: 725) ...
Radiation is one of the cornerstones of cancer treatment - but it can also cause cancer, as a new study has found.
Chaos and clinical controversy rages at hospitals worldwide over the best way to treat prostate cancer. ...
