May 31, 2019 Cancer/Oncology All patients with pancreatic cancer need to be informed of treatment options so they can decide what medical management direction to take.
May 10, 2019 Alternative Medicine Judge overrides parents wishes to use cannabis, vitamins, and diet treatments and orders that three-year-old boy continue his chemo treatments for lymphoblastic leukemia. Rate of success from chemo is over 90 per cent with 98 per cent remission in first few weeks of treatment
April 17, 2019 Bariatric Medicine Tobacco soon to be shoved off its perch as the number one cause of preventable cancers by increasing obesity rates
March 22, 2019 Cancer/Oncology Study finds that people are more likely to opt for unnecessary surgery when they hear the words “cancer, nodule, and tumour”
March 8, 2019 Cancer/Oncology Study looks at how acrylamide, produced when you cook food at high heat, may trigger genetic changes leading to certain cancers. We need to keep in mind that that we are exposed to low levels that to date have not been linked to human cancers.
February 4, 2019 Bariatric Medicine Study suggests increasing obesity rates in young people seem to be resulting in an increase in certain cancers. However there are some caveats.
January 30, 2019 Cancer/Oncology Providing the latest information about the risk and benefits of screening mammograms for women over 40 will assist the decision-making process.The decision will always be with the patient.
December 28, 2018 Cancer/Oncology Do not announce a cancer treatment “breakthrough” when you have not even done a human trial.
