What Doctors Don't Tell YouA special radiotherapy treatment for brain tumours, hailed as a miracle cure by the British press, is far from that, say two leading specialists.
Men with prostate cancer are unlikely to gain any real benefit from androgen suppression procedures, either surgical or pharmacological, which are aimed at controlling male hormones. ...
A new review of the use of radiotherapy for breast cancer, involving 20,000 women, has turned up some worrying findings. ...
NON-HODGKIN: Doing nothing is as good as chemotherapy
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 ...
Although brain cancer has a reputation for being rapidly fatal, roughly half of them are much less virulent, with sufferers living as long as 20 years after diagnosis.
THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: It may kill up to one in five, and yet nobody kn
While 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. ...
