Genteel ladies of the Victorian age were prone to attacks of “the vapors”. Smelling salts, whose pungent odor revived them, was a most necessary constituent of any first aid kit of the time. Syncope, a faint, a vasovagal attack, are all labels for this common condition. A faint occurs when the blood pressure suddenly drops [...]
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Changes may occur in the cells of the cervix. This is known as dysplasia and can be recognised on the Papanicolaou smear. It is believed these changes may be pre-malignant so that treatment at this stage could prevent the development of cancer. Cancer-in-situ is also detected by the smear. This is cancer at its earliest [...]
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Your inside knowledge is just as important with these ongoing modifications to treatment as it was with the initial decision. Your practitioner may advise you to continue intensive chemotherapy because the secondary deposits on your chest X-ray have stopped growing since starting treatment. This means that the cancer has stopped getting bigger, but has not [...]
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