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. ...
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’ve recently had surgery for high-grade DCIS, and am now undergoing radiotherapy. After reading WDDTY vol 14 no 11, I am really worried because of all the biopsies and mammograms I’ve had.
The results of two 20-year long studies into breast cancer treatments have shown that breast-conserving surgery results in better outcomes for women.
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...
