Already suffering debilitating side effects, chemotherapy patients could be made seriously ill by the food they eat.
Even if they are not treated, only about three per cent of men will die of prostate cancer over their lifetime, most in their 70s or 80s.
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A family physician and public health researcher explains why he isn’t getting a prostate cancer test in Movember or at any time in the near future.
Acute myeloid leukemia is a type of cancer where the bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts, a type of white blood cell.
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There is an urgent need for affordable cancer treatment services, lower drug costs, better equipped facilities, favourable national cancer policies and specialist doctors in Kenya.
Different people have very different chances of being diagnosed with breast cancer.
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There is usually no one factor that causes breast cancer. It’s likely a combination of the effects of a person’s risks combined with an element of bad luck.
Palliative care patients talk far more of life than of death.
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A palliative care doctor discusses his interactions with his patients: “I wouldn’t know what I would want were I in their shoes,” he says.
Dr. Karen Lindfors, a professor of radiology and chief of breast imaging at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, examines the mammogram of a patient.
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A new study has found bodyweight exercises you can do at home are just as good as a gym workout.
Palliative care involves a team of specialised health professionals who provide an extra layer of support to the person and their family.
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When a person has a serious illness, palliative care aims to improve that person’s quality of life.
African-American women are about three times more likely to be diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease.
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Researchers have long been looking for clues into how to treat triple negative breast cancer. Could fighter blood cells that infiltrate the tumor provide insight?
Bladder cancer has a lower profile compared to other types of cancer such as breast, lung and prostate.
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Timely and appropriate investigation of suspicious symptoms, especially blood in the urine, is crucial for the accurate and early diagnosis of bladder cancer.
Filters were engineered to make cigarettes taste better, and seem safer.
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Many smokers still think filters make cigarettes safer. But they actually make them more harmful, and the tobacco industry has known about this for a long time.
Medical assistance in dying has been legal in Canada since July 2016, but there are no ‘specialists’ responsible for doctor-assisted suicide and many doctors are overwhelmed with requests.
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More than 2,000 Canadians have chosen medical assistance in dying (MAID) since legalization in 2016. But palliative care doctors aren’t embracing assisted suicide as part of their job.
When we sit, we accumulate calories and excess fat which can cause obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease and death. The solution may be as simple as counting.
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If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
This study didn’t actually measure sitting and its relationship to inflammation - which causes disease.
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A new study has been found that television viewing increases your risk of dying from an inflammatory-related condition like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. But it’s more complicated than that.
For patients with chronic pain, the answer isn’t simple.
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