The drugs in this list which are asterixed are ones which I do not recommend for control of cancer pain, but I have included them because they are often recommended. These drugs are more likely than the other painkillers to produce side effects such as lightheadedness, difficulty in concentrating, confusion and hallucinations. They are also [...]
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 [...]
And then there’s the fastest-rising cancer of all. Malignant melanoma-the deadly variety of skin cancer-is increasing so rapidly that its death toll keeps going up even though the survival rate is actually getting better. In addition, non-melanoma skin cancer-basal and squamous cell carcinoma-is the most common cancer among U.S. Whites.
The sun is to blame. And [...]
A national breast screening programme has been running throughout the UK since 1989 to try to improve the early detection of breast cancers. A study in America several years ago found that 95 per cent of women whose breast lumps were detected and treated when measuring 0.5 cm (approximately 1/5 of an inch) or less [...]
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